From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why was `transient-mark-mode' turned off for `delete-selection-mode'?
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:31:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd2bbkrfu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ffbe01d-ef46-4467-83a6-4714a192ba8b@default>
>> > Why should `delete-selection-mode' no longer enable
>> > transient-mark-mode'?
>> The question is the reverse: why should delete-selection-mode enable
>> transient-mark-mode?
> Why is that the question, for a proposed change to Emacs?
Because you're advocating for delete-selection-mode to enable
transient-mark-mode, so it seems quite relevant to ask why you want
delete-selection-mode to enable transient-mark-mode.
E.g. give us a concrete situation where that would be useful.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-04 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-25 20:07 Why was `transient-mark-mode' turned off for `delete-selection-mode'? Drew Adams
2014-09-04 19:50 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-04 20:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-04 21:15 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-04 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-09-04 21:44 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-05 1:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-05 3:01 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-05 7:03 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-05 16:01 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-05 16:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-05 17:04 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-05 17:22 ` David Kastrup
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