Re: delete-selection-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> See what Kim, Juri, and others said, to understand why it can be important to
> support symbol properties in addition to coding the behavior in the command's
> `interactive' spec.
>
> As Richard put it: "I think we should support both ways, but prefer the
> interactive spec". IOW, (a) `interactive' spec and (b) function symbol
> properties.
>
> (a) is good for specifying the default behavior of a command: it gives the
> command's own, a priori view of its intended behavior. (b) is good for
> specifying alternative, additional, or otherwise custom behavior for the
> command, as determined by the particular runtime context.


I agree to this (as I have already said somewhere in this thread).