From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:39:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <20100317143519.GB4381@muc.de> <87vdcui6oh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20100318101223.GB2704@muc.de> <87aau52a84.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <8858F0418A7541B58EA64831F110A2AE@us.oracle.com> <87fx3xxz7i.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268938061 24137 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2010 18:47:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 18 19:47:36 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 1NsKkm-0001b3-EG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:47:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsKe6-00039D-Qd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:40:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsKe0-00038u-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58312 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsKdq-0001tB-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsKd8-0007qh-KN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:39:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f210.google.com ([209.85.220.210]:43439) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsKd8-0007qW-7X; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so259560fxm.26 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:39:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=e/BE59lbR/GT+djaVRQ39eF8FfmlAvuDEeAAeCvFrIc=; b=mp3KjDniUFCv1etRpZA/RtUUAhcbLbVKUv/IEIWPEkIaMj1R/KMeEiKq7W6JDm5CSz qnGH46KitO99hox+lnkyWA1E/4EA9LXsj+u+oAPgQhkvS68IT4ohkDn5JQbUKJHNGEhh sHQXcRNiefas6rhSOf9eiJJUfw00rIDV8s79s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CyYhnLxjoOyCcpFrfVDJY3FENSX4X0P4NGEz5IhujoHInv1AYF5jlLaCRc5VHgVNja Lhg2pCfSWwoxGEZ7GUUHscTwvY6Dp3n3nI/yXUW/UtLXlbNr1bFmrzYWQ+BCIC5xBfz3 hLsGzBWdCfqVH8eN3Q74A+hgR5MBWKx4O3aLY= Original-Received: by 10.239.141.65 with SMTP id b1mr1428689hba.28.1268937577127; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:39:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87fx3xxz7i.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:122196 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:27 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > > I already said that I'd consider transient-mark-mode _off_ again a good > solution and have an active region for shift-selection, mouse-selected, > and explicit temporary transient-mark-mode. =C2=A0In which case I don't m= ind > delete-selection-mode much since it is in effect only for explicitly > selected _regions_ instead of being a side-effect of using the _mark_. > > I have heard no arguments against that. That might be because no one really thought you wanted that. Was not transient-mark-mode turned on by default to make Emacs default behaviour a bit more like other editing environments? (I do not remember since I prefer cua-mode and would expect most new users to do the same. However this seems like an impossible solution currently, unfortunately.)