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Re: delete-selection-mode
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Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:57:28 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Hi, Thomas!
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 08:59:43PM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
> >Here's a possible idea: enable delete-selection-mode by default but
> >only after shift-selection and mouse-selection.
> A useful "quasi-quantization" to consider is how many bits of state a
> user must keep in mind to accurately predict the dynamically variable
> behavior of self-insert-command. (One is probably pushing it and I
> gather that emacs is going well into N>1 territory. Bummer.)
I think this is the most important point in this discussion (and many
others). An essential feature of Emacs is that N = 0, or at least has
been until recently. That is what distinguishes it from both vi and
typical lesser editors, and IMAO is a critical part of what makes Emacs
such a joy to use.
> -t
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: FW: commands to select things of different kinds, (continued)
- Re: FW: commands to select things of different kinds, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/19
- delete-selection-mode (was: FW: commands to select things of different kinds), Juri Linkov, 2008/04/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode (was: FW: commands to select things of different kinds), Kim F. Storm, 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/20
- 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 <=
- 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, 2008/04/20
- 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