From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should C-x C-x activate the region? [was: C-d deleting region considered harmful] Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:55:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4C94E03D.8090002@gmail.com><87fwx699pc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83tylmyclx.fsf@gnu.org> <4C961787.3090907@gmail.com><878w2xsigj.fsf@gmail.com> <100157F1852148F2A192F00F49398690@us.oracle.com> <9D8F2EEC-EE65-46A5-BF7C-433E2F1B9D14@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285030570 27053 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2010 00:56:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 21 02:56:08 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxr9T-0001l6-SZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:56:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37707 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oxr9T-0002Ih-8e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:56:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46304 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oxr9M-0002Ia-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxr9M-0003WI-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:54224) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxr9M-0003WD-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxr9J-0001fm-4I; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:55:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <9D8F2EEC-EE65-46A5-BF7C-433E2F1B9D14@gmail.com> (message from David Reitter on Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:37:37 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130551 Archived-At: > are there many such annoyed users? If so > then perhaps we should simply make that change to the default behavior: _not_ > have `C-x C-x' activate the region. The reason C-x C-x activates the region is so that you can have a way to activate it without changing it. That is a very useful thing to do, so it needs to be short. If C-x C-x ceases to work, and the new method is less convenient, that is a step backward.