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: yank-secondary Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 11:01:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <000b01c883aa$0177b340$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <000901c8ae3c$ae309770$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <000901c8af91$67d4d7e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <005501c8afeb$afe7ab70$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <005c01c8b00b$72800320$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210172625 12911 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2008 15:03:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:03:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Ehud Karni' , 'David De La Harpe Golden' , 'Emacs-Devel' To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 17:04:20 2008 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 4.50) id 1JtlAg-0000f5-6A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 17:03:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jtl9y-0004zx-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 11:02:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jtl9b-0004ni-2M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 11:01:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jtl9Z-0004lt-CR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 11:01:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38710 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jtl9Z-0004ld-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 11:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182] helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jtl9Y-0002at-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 11:01:56 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtMEAEZhIUhMCrRp/2dsb2JhbACBU6sd X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,449,1204520400"; d="scan'208";a="20019407" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 07 May 2008 11:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.180.105]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id NUI61755; Wed, 07 May 2008 11:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2FD108E60; Wed, 7 May 2008 11:01:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <005c01c8b00b$72800320$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 6 May 2008 23:27:38 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.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:96685 Archived-At: >> >> 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