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Re: delete-selection-mode as default
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: delete-selection-mode as default |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:01:09 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:41:20 -0400
>
> > The _only_ problem I personally have with delete-selection-mode is
> > that it also replaces the region created by the likes of "C-x C-x",
> > something that "most software out there" does not and cannot do.
>
> AFAIU the issue here is that you're using C-x C-x as navigation (a habit
> you might have gotten from the time when transient-mark-mode was
> disabled) rather than as a way to activate the region.
>
> So I think this is a not a problem with d-s-m but with C-x C-x.
>
> Also, I think it's a problem that comes from your habits, and if d-s-m
> had always been enabled you'd simply have different habits and wouldn't
> suffer from it.
A lot of Emacs commands put a mark before moving "far away" (for some
value of "far"), the reason being that the user might want to return
there. What would you suggest as a "different habit" for returning to
that previous place, instead of "C-x C-x"?
And, btw, I find nothing wring with this habit of mine, the only
problem here is that someone decided that "C-x C-x" should activate
the region.
> So I'm not sure it's an argument against d-s-m, really.
Indeed, it could be an argument against "C-x C-x" and/or
transient-mark-mode, except that "C-x C-x" was there first.
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, (continued)
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Elias MÃ¥rtenson, 2018/09/14
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/14
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, hw, 2018/09/15
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, hw, 2018/09/15
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Juri Linkov, 2018/09/11
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/11
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/10
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/10
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/10
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/10
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/10
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/10
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Yuri Khan, 2018/09/10
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/10
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), Richard Stallman, 2018/09/11
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/11
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), Richard Stallman, 2018/09/11
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/11