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Re: TAB for non-editing modes
From: |
Johan Bockgård |
Subject: |
Re: TAB for non-editing modes |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:11:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>> Doing this with kill commands would take away a feature: you can use
>> them in read-only buffers to copy text to the kill ring. That feature
>> may not be very useful in read-only buffers, but I am not convinced it
>> is an improvement to make it entirely unavailable there.
>
> Granted. But it could be argued that this "feature" is really a bug that we
> exploit (because it seems useful) ;-). Because it is inconsistent with
> normal use (killing) of those commands/keys, it promotes user error and
> possibly confusion. The user does not even get proper feedback about this
> "trick" - s?he still gets the read-only error message/reminder, and there is
> no indication that anything was copied. I don't know if this "feature" is
> even documented.
Of course it is. There even exists an option to remove the read-only
error--`kill-read-only-ok'.
--
Johan Bockgård
- Re: bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only?, (continued)
- Re: bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only?, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/24
- Re: bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/25
- RE: TAB for non-editing modes, Drew Adams, 2007/09/22
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Bastien, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Juri Linkov, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/23
- RE: TAB for non-editing modes, Drew Adams, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes,
Johan Bockgård <=
- RE: TAB for non-editing modes, Drew Adams, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Johan Bockgård, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/09/23
- Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/24