From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:07:51 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4C94E03D.8090002@gmail.com> <87fwx699pc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83tylmyclx.fsf@gnu.org> <4C961787.3090907@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284906021 26854 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2010 14:20:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:20:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 16:20:20 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 1OxKke-0001M7-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:20:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxKkd-0000dm-J4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59802 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxKkW-0000dO-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxKkS-0002DW-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39541) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxKkS-0002DC-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxKkO-0001BK-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:20:04 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no ([84.215.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:20:04 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:20:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAD1BMVEXKHgn+egv+iw39bQz+ gAzxtdKuAAACYUlEQVQ4jT2Ui5XsIAiG2c0UEEYKmCUWEIIFXJX+a7o/JrueMxnDJ28MRdSoGny+ JjX6/tBnU6xOPTpHRNlpp/HvdX59qOZBMu4mXKwQbX0nuj4EhcrEzL10dyfyNvE4CS8dpjqIFYYA Itpu4EZsACwlNdLeDYwJ+y/rhvd1mjYAKcyUy9mXpQJxAkI0C2zF0zoktoMTSb8BVMzXMssjFI8p AL4BTpg36TFvsKUCQw3/7CaoxgNSYuzFS+t9dg15TEGMEJdFHmy19j9w+2YuF5cW8gsYAaOS3jpb hAf3xwVAga1wxMNjokUrH7jGadQ5pkmRcaBJq2gFxEpx4b4Jt6FSg+7gy/LisIVsVAcDZJNW3k2a yVwa7/eg7Kqj7mCIuqNKLeWVMp5M2n3P6MTCRC+Avi/jcJTASuMGEAqNBIjATvQl+P1jmDMNCiQG U6uC8O/abfRRKyFTzvpJMXFDNeLSI8E4MgWbGTXK1PQnVLQq9dmQI0/fMKljekzVS/VAexuCj+F7 AgyI6LGGGkXuvYxq/pLwSa93hQ46GOJD45pQdn8j5GUpw5XSRhxNdW+oKca9JkC4CKvWo1U9Nv1k 1+DivABU/a12XDh0Zdeo4cir5y052iE6Wc9tNfp1UPteQIuta7c/Q7aT2g0Oz6f+0LO+FCVJyaw3 OR9wZVQpwEYG/j+PrZQt57mpvf9eim9Mw9K49Hfd4L384XfdSvw42e5AdAyf7Xaun+1CGQe+DJ3s zJn6+rNWS0jtmN02JXQs0Xpqflk6rkGLUdEhyDUqdioAGE9cDcnXmj1QjD/EIsL8H65gnDELmqjB AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: XXL's =?iso-8859-1?Q?=5F=A1Cia=FCtistico!=5F=3A?= "Minne Mouseistic" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wfU5aI4s/KQ5AW7zIBvbiJF9wZ0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130488 Archived-At: Christoph writes: > Out of curiosity, from old-timer to new-timer, what advantages does > the traditional Emacs behavior over transient-mark-mode? The advantage for me is that I don't keep deleting text that I don't want to delete. :-) In addition, I don't have to stomp on `C-g' for every third command I do to make the region go away and let me edit stuff as normal. (I think `C-g' should only be used when you really want to get out of a sticky situation -- not as part of the normal editing routine.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen