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: Permanent shift-select-mode Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:36:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <8BDB38B3CCBC481CB014CB3DA9FA1948@us.oracle.com> <87y6hq39rk.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <9B30E5E474524F4092443C23D37B92CC@us.oracle.com> <87mxy5fhzk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87aau2ppxg.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 1269221792 14288 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2010 01:36:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 02:36:27 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 1NtWZ8-0002yx-Gc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:36:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60264 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtWZ7-0007Dg-S2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NtWZ3-0007D5-Tk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49725 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtWZ2-0007CR-7R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtWYz-0000NV-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:52444 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtWYz-0000NR-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:36:17 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAOZlpkvO+IPa/2dsb2JhbACbOXS5KIR9BIsd X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,284,1267419600"; d="scan'208";a="58774267" Original-Received: from 206-248-131-218.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.131.218]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 21 Mar 2010 21:36:17 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F13D4660FC; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:36:16 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87aau2ppxg.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:51:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:122443 Archived-At: >> There is also lisp/s-region.el that could be marked obsolete. > s-region.el is now obsolete. But unfortunately, `shift-select-mode' > is not an exact replacement. There is an significant difference: > `shift-select-mode' deactivates the mark when a next key is not > shift-translated. > The following patch adds a new option `permanent' to > `shift-select-mode' that doesn't deactivate the mark: I'd first wait to hear people actually ask for this feature. Stefan