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Re: draft for DEL key poll
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James Cloos |
Subject: |
Re: draft for DEL key poll |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:49:27 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "CY" == Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
CY> Some Emacs commands perform a certain operation on the region when
CY> it is active. In general, this "act on region" behavior does not
CY> draw a distinction between a region made with the mouse (or
CY> shift-selection) and a region made "normally" (e.g. by C-SPC
CY> followed by point motion). In previous Emacs releases, a special
CY> exception was made for the DEL and delete keys. This exception has
CY> now been dropped.
(It has been long enough since region highlighting arrived that
I've forgotten what setting I used to require a double-tap to create
highlighted regions. And grep(1)ing my custom file didn't "highlight"
the amswer. (Sorry for the pun.))
Is is the case that active region == highlighted region?
Ie, if emacs is configured such that C-SPC must be hit twice to
highlight the region, does that imply that when a region is not
highlighted that DEL will not delete it?
Allowing DEL to delete or seft-insert to replace a highlighted region
is one thing. Allowing them to delete a non-highlighted region, OTOH,
is -- or should be -- a non-starter.
And I still think that regions so deleted should be on the kill-ring.
-JimC
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James Cloos <address@hidden> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
disable delete-selection-mode? (was: Re: draft for DEL key poll), chad, 2011/09/26
Re: draft for DEL key poll, Juri Linkov, 2011/09/26
Re: draft for DEL key poll, Chong Yidong, 2011/09/26
Re: draft for DEL key poll, chad, 2011/09/28
Re: draft for DEL key poll, Richard Stallman, 2011/09/29
Re: draft for DEL key poll, chad, 2011/09/29
Re: draft for DEL key poll, Andrew W. Nosenko, 2011/09/29
Re: draft for DEL key poll, chad, 2011/09/29
Re: draft for DEL key poll, Richard Stallman, 2011/09/30
Re: draft for DEL key poll, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/30