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: AW: delete-selection-mode Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:01:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4BA0CDF9.40707@online.de> <76682E4761EA432EB929E5E199B0F92A@us.oracle.com> <87wrxb57e1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20100317.200901.408057447.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <87sk7y2gh9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <69FB036BE1D649E0B76B257ED3D3F6EA@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268960509 5263 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2010 01:01:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:01:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'David Kastrup' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 19 02:01:43 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 1NsQag-0002hH-Sl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:01:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60260 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsQag-0006U3-G8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsQab-0006Ru-2m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:01:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37440 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsQaZ-0006Oj-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:01:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsQaX-0001QV-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:19438 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsQaT-0001Pt-TW; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:01:17 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEADRpoktFpZMX/2dsb2JhbACbLXS8F4R5BIsb X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,271,1267419600"; d="scan'208";a="58580502" Original-Received: from 69-165-147-23.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.165.147.23]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 18 Mar 2010 21:01:16 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4BC31660FC; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:01:16 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <69FB036BE1D649E0B76B257ED3D3F6EA@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:10:57 -0700") 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:122235 Archived-At: >> >> You can set the mark, move somewhere else, type stuff >> >> there, and return using C-x C-x, again typing stuff there, >> >> without destroying anything you have written. >> > You can still do that with delete-selection-mode turned on; you just >> > need to hit C-g to deactivate the mark before starting typing in the >> > new location. >> And get a bell. In the course of a normal editing operation. > Oh please. Is this what this has boiled down to? The bell? C-g *is* a problem. Not just because of the bell, but also because of the slight time delay (caused by the bell); because it flushes the key buffer; because it interrupts a macro-recoding, ... It's not the end of the world, but it's not a very satisfactory answer. Stefan