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Re: AW: delete-selection-mode
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: AW: delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:11:25 +0900 |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>> The "DEL deletes" functionality seems the main thing; a mode
>> which only did that would probably be fine, and solve 95% of
>> the muscle-memory-from-other-apps issues.
>
> Why? How will that help users who expect the usual type-to-replace behavior?
It won't, but based on what I've seen, I think that people who actually
"type to delete", instead of hitting DEL first and _then_ typing the new
text, are a minority.
[Note that this observation doesn't apply to specialized input fields
like browser address boxes -- they're set up so that "type to delete" is
the usual action -- but they're a very specialized and unusual context,
and should not be treated like standard text buffers.]
[Just to be clear, "DEL" means the `delete-backward-char' key.]
> What's so special about DEL? IIUC, your proposal essentially binds DEL to
> `delete-region' when the region is active.
Yes, and that's _good_. It's simple, straight-forward, and has the good
points without the bad points.
The goal is _not_ to turn Emacs into windows, it's to help people with
windows-influenced muscle-memory a bit, when doing so is not harmful.
Clearly there are many controversial issues in this area, so we should
pick off the low-hanging fruit first.
-Miles
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- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, (continued)
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/17
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/17
- RE: AW: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/17
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/17
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/17
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Chong Yidong, 2010/03/17
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/17
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/17
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Miles Bader, 2010/03/17
- RE: AW: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Chong Yidong, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Miles Bader, 2010/03/18
- RE: AW: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- RE: AW: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/18
- RE: AW: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/19
- RE: AW: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/19
- RE: AW: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/18