From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:52:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <22603146-A346-4FC2-8D74-5D6047865C3A@mit.edu> <87r5nf8s7q.fsf@siart.de> <87pr2ygbii.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87tys9180s.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ocih158i.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <874ok7bhse.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87fx3r10ec.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87d3yv7zzy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87634n0xnn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fx3rc5p0.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269381715 30462 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2010 22:01:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:01:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 23:01:51 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 1NuCAZ-0006ry-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:01:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39209 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NuCAY-0005HZ-ND for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NuC1c-00006e-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42150 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NuC1b-0008Uv-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:52:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuC1Z-0004mh-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:60739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuC1Z-0004mW-Mr; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o2NLqWgl018524; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4D7FE3A085; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:52:32 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87fx3rc5p0.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:23:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3497=0 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:122576 Archived-At: > What do you think about marking commands that should delete the active > region with a new interactive character (like "^" is used to call > `handle-shift-selection'), so e.g. a new function `handle-delete-region' > could delete the active region before running a command? Sounds very good, indeed, Stefan "who suggested something like that earlier ;-)"