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RE: TAB for non-editing modes
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: TAB for non-editing modes |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:33:22 -0700 |
> >> Doing this with kill commands would take away a feature: you can use
> >> them in read-only buffers to copy text to the kill ring. That feature
> >> may not be very useful in read-only buffers, but I am not convinced it
> >> is an improvement to make it entirely unavailable there.
> >
> > Granted. But it could be argued that this "feature" is really a
> > bug that we exploit (because it seems useful) ;-). Because it is
> > inconsistent with normal use (killing) of those commands/keys,
> > it promotes user error and possibly confusion. The user does not
> > even get proper feedback about this "trick" - s?he still gets
> > the read-only error message/reminder, and there is no indication
> > that anything was copied. I don't know if this "feature" is
> > even documented.
>
> Of course it is. There even exists an option to remove the read-only
> error--`kill-read-only-ok'.
Cough; hack.
Why is this better than using the corresponding standard copy commands? What do
we gain by this complexity and inconsistency?
- Re: bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only?, (continued)
- Re: bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only?, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/24
- Re: bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/25
- RE: TAB for non-editing modes, Drew Adams, 2007/09/22
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Bastien, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Juri Linkov, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/23
- RE: TAB for non-editing modes, Drew Adams, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Johan Bockgård, 2007/09/23
- RE: TAB for non-editing modes,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Johan Bockgård, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/24