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 21:00:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzjeevq65.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b045884-0f98-49f3-addd-227a3c1403d1@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 4 Sep 2014 14:44:43 -0700 (PDT)")
> You are the one advocating for a change in the longstanding behavior.
No, I did change the code, but that's done. I didn't advocate for it,
nor do I feel any need to do it.
>> E.g. give us a concrete situation where that would be useful.
> I did, several times now: Be able to see clearly what it is
> that you are typing over (replacing or deleting).
> That's why this behavior was invented in the first place
> (outside Emacs): highlighting the selection and letting you
> type to replace what you see highlighted.
What does this have to do with a concrete situation?
Please: give me a concrete situation, starting from "emacs -Q".
I think if you go through the exercise, you'll understand that your
request is ill-founded.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-05 1:00 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
2014-09-04 21:44 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-05 1:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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