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RE: delete-selection-mode as default
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: delete-selection-mode as default |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Sep 2018 20:34:12 -0700 (PDT) |
> So there are a few things to note:
>
> + start and end marker of a selection do not need to be visible
> + the selection is entirely independent from navigation
> + the selection is persistent
> + the start marker is being remembered after the selection has been used
> + I can move, type and edit normally without endangering the selection
> as if it wasn't there
Dunno what you mean by the 4th one. (Perhaps you mean that
you can navigate back to it?)
But all of the others, at least, are true of the secondary selection.
That's why I said that I think the sec. sel. is the closest thing
Emacs has that corresponds to the behavior you expect.
> The cursor is always visible in joe. That doesn't mean that a selection
> can not be persistent or that its end must always be visible. This is
> an Emacs problem because sticking to "the region" makes Emacs
> inflexible.
I meant that Emacs always has point as one end of the region,
and because (like editors typically) the cursor is always visible
on the screen, so the point end of the region is always on
screen.
There is no association between the secondary selection and
point, so the entire sec. sel. can move off screen. And it is
"persistent" in the sense I think you mean (as opposed persisting
across Emacs sessions).
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, (continued)
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Richard Stallman, 2018/09/15
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/16
- 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, Drew Adams, 2018/09/15
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, hw, 2018/09/15
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, hw, 2018/09/16
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/09/16
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, hw, 2018/09/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Yuri Khan, 2018/09/16
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/16
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/16
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/16
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/16
- RE: delete-selection-mode as default, Drew Adams, 2018/09/16
- Re: delete-selection-mode as default, Yuri Khan, 2018/09/16