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RE: delete-selection-mode
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:24:08 -0700 |
> > Please, folks, lets keep to the topic as raised by Juri:
> > `whether the default should be d-s-mode or just t-m-mode'.
>
> Why not discuss other related questions at the same time?
> Or do you object for doing this without changing the Subject line?
Well, I already mentioned that _related_ questions were appropriate (in the very
text you quote below: "other relevant questions").
What can defeat dealing with the topic at hand are the wide-open, far-ranging
discussions about Emacs vs other editors (without regard to the question of text
selection) or keyboard vs mouse or no t-m-mode vs t-m-mode; etc.
There's nothing wrong with questions that relate to the question at hand and
help us find its answer. But throwing up arguments against the use of t-m-mode
is essentially drowning the fish, whether intentional or not.
> > That question is plenty big enough. We can still bring in
> > questions of who the default behavior (for this) should be
> > most aimed at, and other relevant questions that have
> > already been broached.
>
> Maybe this question needs a poll. I suspect the outcome will be
> something around 95% vs 5% ;-)
I've heard talk of user polls for quite some time now. RMS brings it up
occasionally. I have yet to see a user poll, however. I know that Richard has
said that polls were carried out sometimes in the past.
User polls can provide useful info. On their own, they don't (shouldn't) decide
a question, but their info can be helpful input when deciding.
- Re: delete-selection-mode (was: Put scroll-bar on right by default on UNIX.), (continued)
- Re: delete-selection-mode (was: Put scroll-bar on right by default on UNIX.), Alan Mackenzie, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode (was: Put scroll-bar on right by default on UNIX.), Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/17
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/17
- RE: delete-selection-mode,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Miles Bader, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/18
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Manoj Srivastava, 2010/03/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Manoj Srivastava, 2010/03/21