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Re: delete-selection-mode
From: |
Jason Rumney |
Subject: |
Re: delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:53:49 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Personally I think that the traditional Emacs way of setting mark should
> have neither delete-selection nor transient-mark by default. The reason
> is that Emacs has two distinct uses for the mark - as a mark, and as one
> end of the region. Transient-mark-mode and delete-selection-mode really
> only apply when the mark is used as one end of the region, and get in
> the way when the intention is to use the mark as a mark.
>
> The reason I don't agree with this is that Transient Mark mode
> is very useful with the traditional Emacs mark commands.
> (I have mark-even-if-inactive set to t, which is what makes
> Transient Mark mode acceptable.)
Can we perhaps highlight the region in a different color, so the user is
not so surprised that it acts differently than a region set using the
mouse.
- RE: delete-selection-mode, (continued)
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2010/03/19
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2010/03/20
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Jason Rumney, 2010/03/18
- 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, Richard Stallman, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode,
Jason Rumney <=
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Miles Bader, 2010/03/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2010/03/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/20
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/20
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Miles Bader, 2010/03/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Miles Bader, 2010/03/21