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bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:45:13 -0700 |
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Today I typed DEL after yanking some text and typing C-x
> > C-x to go to the beginning of it. DEL surprised me by
> > deleting the region.
>
> I think most people now agree that `C-x C-x' shouldn't activate the
> region when transient-mark-mode is switched on, but nobody
> has actually altered that function to stop doing this.
>
> If nobody objects, I'll make that change later tonight.
Huh??????
_Nothing_ has been decided in this regard.
Refer to the giant thread "C-d deleting region considered harmful". See in
particular the sub/derived threads "Should C-x C-x activate the region?" and
"C-x C-x".
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-09/msg00965.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-09/msg01011.html
There was _lots_ of discussion about this, but no conclusion about just what
should be done.
The last mail I see on this topic was Richard's of 2010/09/22.
He argued that a poll should be taken.
The last line of the thread is Richard's:
"If we just speculate about this, we might be very wrong."
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-09/msg01110.html
Please do _not_ just "make that change later tonight".
(You certainly should not make changes like that based only on someone filing a
bug to report an annoyance.)
(FWIW, I was the first in the thread to suggest that we might consider changing
`C-x C-x' so that it does not activate the region. So I am not against such a
change, in principle. But just "making that change later tonight" is truly not
kosher/halal.)
- bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up, Richard Stallman, 2010/10/21
- bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/21
- bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/21
- bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up, Miles Bader, 2010/10/22
- bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/22
- bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up, Andreas Schwab, 2010/10/22
- bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/22
- bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/22
- bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up, Richard Stallman, 2010/10/23