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 (was: Put scroll-bar on right by default on UNIX.) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:22:20 +0100 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> <87vdcui6oh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20100318101223.GB2704@muc.de> <87d3z0i7yi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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 1269041021 4939 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2010 23:23:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:23:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Alan Mackenzie , Chong Yidong , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 20 00:23:35 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 1NslXS-0008Ht-UM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:23:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NslXS-0005S1-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NslWg-000551-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57990 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NslWf-00054M-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NslWc-0001b5-8r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:22:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f210.google.com ([209.85.220.210]:39999) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NslWc-0001at-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so1061816fxm.26 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:22:40 -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=CjmkzqtqW2CPyDEwr/W4Mkpj/FSvSFtzJkb+65UTX1Y=; b=n5HeuiRVgMMUlK7LfgBeEqaj6AqsPzxyvgruK+b2zb0DSGSAqVP7e4ss19VZrbDq65 qD2P9S4EvjVHgcrwPfcNNrRdOtC7zNOy/rTfy7VWGD+WVpsWrgqRWTEm1FYd5LAl+zlR afzIMF39p6gHg9H338OvNvkAqtKKdbAc3O4/c= 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=gL3oYwhn0lOn02nH1tiXBHyaSw62syKNZw6YqJzG7FSmvZifX9E6FmSDbOSiwNwVux UdkICFyb86V5Czlgs3QxUaqzafj04Osb5HMWBjFQCvyWdCjgyte93WRcTAMqJZ1q8jcQ 6ra+Xfri6fQV0xAHSruGPAYgR0k4skURuUEs8= Original-Received: by 10.239.187.72 with SMTP id k8mr95376hbh.47.1269040960138; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:22:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87d3z0i7yi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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:122321 Archived-At: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull w= rote: > > My personal experience. =C2=A0I really didn't like it in theory, I found = it > irritating in practice, but having given it a serious try, I now like > it, and miss it when I'm borrowing somebody's Emacs or something. :-) It is a bit funny that trying have been such a hard thing. Thanks to both you and rms for pointing this out. > Of course it's good to offer alternatives. It is easy to see that it has both positive and negative sides to offer alternatives. But evaluating them is not easy.