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Re: delete-selection-mode
From: |
Chad Brown |
Subject: |
Re: delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:22:11 -0700 |
On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:35 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The risk you describe exists in theory, and I suppose it occurs
>> occasionally in practice. But honestly, my impression is that you
>> simply have not used d-s-mode much or this would not be a problem in
>> practice.
>>
>> 99.999% (no, no proof; just a guess) of computer users out there use
>> this "risky" behavior everyday, all day long, without exploding (and
>> without Emac's powerful undo as a remedy).
>
> It is an occasional occuring nuisance in one-line entry lines (where it
> causes extra work), and it would be a perfect menace on multi-line
> entry, but I don't know of any multi-line entry fields in applications
> that don't have undo, most particular not with text editors.
>
> So please match your descriptions of "the rest of the world" to existing
> realities.
Every web browser any new user is likely to use, anywhere, every time. This
will be at least 50% of the experience of new users -- probably more, and
growing every day.
- RE: delete-selection-mode, (continued)
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Miles Bader, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- RE: delete-selection-mode (was: Put scroll-bar on right by defaulton UNIX.), Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode,
Chad Brown <=
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/19
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/19
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode (was: Put scroll-bar on right by defaulton UNIX.), Alan Mackenzie, 2010/03/18
- RE: delete-selection-mode (was: Put scroll-bar on right by defaultonUNIX.), Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode (was: Put scroll-bar on right by defaultonUNIX.), Alan Mackenzie, 2010/03/19