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Re: delete-selection-mode
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:36:56 +0100 |
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I've just spoken to my sister, an "ordinary" computer user. Â She says
> > she normally uses the <delete> key after marking text before typing
> > further. Â She also gets annoyed "every now and then" when marked text
> > gets accidentally deleted by typing, though "it's not too bad" if
> > there's an undo key sequence.
>
> Yes, that is normal today since that is how it works during most of
> the editing people do today.
>
> Alan's point is that one ordinary user dislikes what most programs do
> today. She dislikes it in the other programs, and she would dislike
> it in Emacs too if we made Emacs do it.
I happened to dislike it myself the first time it happened to me.
However I got used to it. There could be other ways but I can see no
real reason they are better (at least not the versions I can think
of).
My conclusion here is: follow the de facto standards - as long as the
key sequences used belongs to these standards.
- Re: delete-selection-mode (was: Put scroll-bar on right by default on UNIX.), (continued)
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- Re: delete-selection-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Miles Bader, 2010/03/17
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/18
- AW: delete-selection-mode, Berndl, Klaus, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Harald Hanche-Olsen, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Chad Brown, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode,
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Uwe Siart, 2010/03/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2010/03/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/20
- AW: delete-selection-mode, Berndl, Klaus, 2010/03/20
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2010/03/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Miles Bader, 2010/03/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/22