Re: C-x C-x (was: C-d deleting region considered harmful)

[Chad Brown]

On Sep 20, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Now for the spinoff thread that keeps spinning off other ones: I'd be
> willing to decouple C-x C-x from "(re)activate the region", but then we
> need to find some other way to reactivate the region.
> Suggestions welcome.  Of course there's C-u C-x C-x, but I don't find it
> very appealing (just like C-u C-x C-x doesn't sound too appealing to
> people who currently want to exchange-mark-and-point without activating
> the region).


How about C-space C-x C-x (i.e. check if (eq mark omark))?  I assume
that C-x space is intentionally left unused due to some conflict or
other.

*Chad