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Re: delete-selection-mode as default
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: delete-selection-mode as default |
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Fri, 7 Sep 2018 09:16:21 -0400 |
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On 2018-09-07 05:18, hw wrote:
> When a selection is active, why would anyone assume that typing an
> arbitrary letter is supposed to replace the entire selection, or to
> disable it?
Out of experience, mostly. When almost every other program you use besides
Emacs behaves that way, it's easy to assume that Emacs will behave the same way.
> Allowing that to happen is simply a design flaw, or an
> oversight.
I prefer to think of it as a very convenient feature. For example, as I typed
this email, I first wrote "as I composed" instead of "as I typed", pressed
Control+Shift+Left Arrow, and pressed "typed". Similarly, I had first written
"I call it" instead of "I prefer to think of it", and the way I changed one
into the other was to select "call it" and type "prefer to think of it as".
This select, then type to replace behavior is the norm in most programs I use
outside Emacs, and it doesn't sound like a design flaw to me. Of course, Emacs'
default behavior can be very convenient too, and it's good that it can do both.
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), Noam Postavsky, 2018/09/06
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), Drew Adams, 2018/09/06
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/07
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, hw, 2018/09/07
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default,
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Robert Pluim, 2018/09/07
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Dmitry Gutov, 2018/09/07
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/07
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Robert Pluim, 2018/09/07
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/07
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Robert Pluim, 2018/09/07
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Jostein Kjønigsen, 2018/09/07
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/07
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Juri Linkov, 2018/09/08
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/09