From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:39:31 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <20100317143519.GB4381@muc.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268969994 26940 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2010 03:39:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:39:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, Stefan Monnier , acm@muc.de To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 19 04:39:49 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 1NsT3p-00063P-PZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:39:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40146 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsT3p-0003tD-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:39:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsT3k-0003r7-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:39:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47815 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsT3i-0003of-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:39:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsT3h-0003tI-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:43514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsT3h-0003tC-1M; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:39:37 -0400 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o2J3dPLX009627; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:39:32 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:39:32 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.112.30] [10.114.112.30]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:39:32 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 51B4852E1F2; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:39:32 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:37:20 -0400") Original-Lines: 22 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:122246 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > It does have many more effects. The most significant one is that any > self-inserting key typed when the region is active will cause the region > to be deleted before the char is inserted. > > Is this true even when the region has been activated by keyboard commands? > If so, perhaps it is a bug. Perhaps the feature should only apply when > you make the region using the mouse. I think having invisible differences between "types" of activated region is simply confusing; this is especially problematic given that the feature being discussed is aimed at beginning users. Whether or not we turn on "type to delete region" by default or not, I don't think we should be adding confusing hair to the user interface. When it is enabled, it should act consistently for all types of active region. -Miles -- Consult, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.