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Re: draft for DEL key poll
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: draft for DEL key poll |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:26:13 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
Hi Alan,
> I sincerely hope we won't be introducing too many more behaviours
> which are "standard" in modern GUIs.
Yes, I hope we incorporate (or invent) only behaviors that make sense
and improve editing. And in this concrete case (or, say, comment-dwim,
M-;), I actually like this special behavior.
> > Some Emacs commands perform a certain operation on the region when
> > it is active. In general, this "act on region" behavior does not
> > draw a distinction between a region made with the mouse (or
> > shift-selection) and a region made "normally" (e.g. by C-SPC
> > followed by point motion). In previous Emacs releases, a special
> > exception was made for the DEL and delete keys. This exception has
> > now been dropped.
>
> I cannot let you get away with this epistemological conflation. These
> other commands do not act _ON_ the region. They act _IN_ the region.
> delete was not previously an exception - they did their normal thing
> at the boundary of the region.
Well, there's no way to be *not* at the boundary of the region, right?
So there couldn't be any special behavior if at the region boundaries
any command had to act "normally."
> As a matter of interest, in the proposed default configuration, how
> does one delete a single character at a boundary of an "active"
> region?
I deactivate the region (C-g), delete the character (DEL), and
reactivate the region with `C-x C-x'. But this situation occurs (for
me) much less frequently than the situation where I want to delete the
complete active region, so I'm happy that I can now simply hit DEL
instead of C-w.
Bye,
Tassilo
- Re: draft for DEL key poll, (continued)
- 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
Re: draft for DEL key poll, Chong Yidong, 2011/09/26