From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Ehud Karni' <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>,
'David De La Harpe Golden' <david.delaharpe.golden@gmail.com>,
'Emacs-Devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: yank-secondary
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 11:01:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzlr288fx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005c01c8b00b$72800320$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 6 May 2008 23:27:38 -0700")
>> >> Why not just either yank and swap primary<->secondary?
[...]
> With such a swap, the cursor would always move to the end (or
> beginning) of the secondary selection. That movement is precisely why
> I said that (my) `secondary-to-primary' is much less useful than (my)
> `primary-to-secondary': it's not too often that you want to move to
> where the secondary selection is. (And when you do, I can't imagine
> why you would at the same time want to make the previous region the
> new secondary.)
I see, thanks,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-07 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-11 18:59 FW: yank-secondary Drew Adams
2008-05-04 23:15 ` yank-secondary Drew Adams
2008-05-06 15:54 ` yank-secondary Drew Adams
2008-05-07 1:55 ` yank-secondary Stefan Monnier
2008-05-07 2:40 ` yank-secondary Drew Adams
2008-05-07 3:15 ` yank-secondary Stefan Monnier
2008-05-07 6:27 ` yank-secondary Drew Adams
2008-05-07 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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2008-01-30 21:41 yank-secondary Drew Adams
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