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Re: delete-selection-mode
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:32:51 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>> With the current semantics of active regions and delete-selection-mode,
>> I consider the end result painful. That does not change that it may
>> also be in some cases be useful.
>>
>> Does really nobody have an idea how to improve the situation?
>
> Do I understand you right when I assume that the painful thing for old
> users would be that typing new text would delete the selection?
>
> Many new users expects this.
Not when they are not expecting an active region in the first place.
There are more ways to make a region active than the explicit ways that
a "new user expects".
> If the default will be that typing new text replaces the visible
> region then maybe there should be a substate where it is possible to
> type in new text while the region is visible? One way this could be
> done is to let C-x C-x go into that substate (in addition to doing
> what it does now).
>
> Would that be to inconvinient?
It sounds messy. We already have too many different region states.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: delete-selection-mode, (continued)
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Thomas Lord, 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Chong Yidong, 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/21