From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: long-standing set-up errors on upgrade (elimination of x cut buffers)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:04:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvaanc13d8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74CBA14C-D240-4148-9752-EB3295CD86C2@mit.edu> (Chad Brown's message of "Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:24:28 -0700")
> Unless something changes, I would guess that ``typing replaces selection''
> will be the default behavior in a future Emacs release.
While it's always a possibility, I don't expect it to happen any time
soon. Deleting the active region in response to backspace or delete is
appreciated by many people and hurts relatively little (tho it does hurt
occasionally), so it's a tradeoff we're willing to make in Emacs-24.
But for "typing replaces the selection", the pain is a good bit higher,
so I'd only expect it to happen if/when we get transient-mark-mode to
a state where everyone can live with it, which seems like it's not going
to happen any time soon.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-20 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-15 1:10 long-standing set-up errors on upgrade (elimination of x cut buffers) Joe Brenner
2010-09-15 4:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-16 22:47 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-15 4:39 ` Jan Djärv
2010-09-15 6:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 22:39 ` Joe Brenner
2010-09-20 16:24 ` Chad Brown
2010-09-20 22:04 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-09-16 11:02 ` durducengiz
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