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Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions)
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) |
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Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:35:17 -0400 |
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On 2018-09-10 14:16, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Actually, I'm not sure what the use of d-s-mode actually is. I
> don't recall anyone here advocating it on some intrinsic merits
I did, in a previous message :) See below:
> 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".
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), (continued)
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, hw, 2018/09/10
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), Alan Mackenzie, 2018/09/10
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions),
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), Alan Mackenzie, 2018/09/10
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions), Drew Adams, 2018/09/10
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, hw, 2018/09/11
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/11
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, hw, 2018/09/13
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/09/12
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/12
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/09/12
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Yuri Khan, 2018/09/12
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/09/12