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: bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:22:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287750172 21466 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2010 12:22:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:22:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, lmi@gnus.org, 7260@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 22 14:22:50 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 1P9Gdy-0002Yx-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:22:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P9Gdx-0001Rp-UO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39903 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P9Gds-0001R3-SP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P9Gdr-0007s4-KP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:54601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P9Gdr-0007s0-He for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P9Gdq-0001N1-Pt; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:22:38 -0400 In-reply-to: (drew.adams@oracle.com) 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:131986 Archived-At: > I think most people now agree that `C-x C-x' shouldn't activate the > region when transient-mark-mode is switched on, but nobody > has actually altered that function to stop doing this. C-x C-x is the main way to activate an existing region in Transient Mark mode. To make that require C-u will be a different pain in the neck. The change for C-d and DEL to delete all regions was too radically incompatible to make made without polling the users first. The right thing to do is take that change out, then address the issue the right way: by polling the users. -- Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org