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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Another Emacs incompatibilty
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:52:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f415ba03-a0d7-485c-9348-3190eb6e8df4@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imdfewcn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

> > Some of us think that `delete-selection-mode'
> > should be enabled by default - and that this
> > is long overdue.
> >
> > FYI, a similar debate took place for
> > `transient-mark-mode'.  It took _decades_ to
> > finally get that turned on by default.
> >
> > Maybe you can't imagine t-m-mode being off by
> > default.  Try it.  ;-)  There are some good
> > arguments for that behavior, as there are
> > against it.
> 
> I was mostly posting to point out possible clues to OP's problem, not to
> disparage `d-s-m', et al! I can see why people might want it, especially
> if they're also using a lot of other software. Personally I feel that it
> obscures an "Emacs approach" to editing that, when fully embraced, is
> much more powerful (I also disable `transient-mark-mode'), but I would
> have no interest in making that decision for other people, one way or
> the other.

I understand your point of view better now,
since you've said that you also turn off
`transient-mark-mode'.

The two are related, IMO.  They're not
coupled, but there is some user-level relation
between them.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-18 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-16 20:57 Another Emacs incompatibilty Torbjörn Granlund
2020-08-16 21:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-16 23:02 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17  8:12 ` On the rate of change [was: Another Emacs incompatibilty] tomas
2020-08-17 14:21   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 15:20     ` tomas
2020-08-17 17:44       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 15:14 ` Another Emacs incompatibilty Torbjörn Granlund
2020-08-17 15:54   ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-17 16:08   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-17 20:16     ` Torbjörn Granlund
2020-08-17 20:42       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-17 21:22         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 22:00         ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 22:18         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-17 23:00           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-18  0:25             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-18  4:16               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-18  4:47               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18  5:27                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-18  5:36                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 20:10                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-24  6:43                       ` Alan Davis
2020-08-24  6:55                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-24 23:21                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-24 14:31                         ` Drew Adams
2020-08-24 23:24                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25  0:53                             ` Alan Davis
2020-08-25  4:09                             ` Drew Adams
2020-08-25  4:14                               ` Drew Adams
2020-08-25  4:30                               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25  5:04                                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25  5:46                                 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-25  6:07                                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25  5:51                                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-24 15:31                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-24 23:14                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-18 15:47               ` Drew Adams
2020-08-18 16:45                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-18 16:52                   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-08-18 17:50                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-18 17:10                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 16:31   ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 16:49     ` Perry Smith
2020-08-17 16:54       ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 17:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-17 17:28         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 17:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-17 17:16   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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