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Re: *scratch* buffer (was: A wish, a plea)
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Davis Herring |
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Re: *scratch* buffer (was: A wish, a plea) |
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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:04:12 -0700 (PDT) |
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> > There are no keys bound to delete-region by default, and in standard
> Emacs
> > normal keys like DEL and backspace do not destroy the region under any
> > circumstances. We'd need something more reliable than this combo.
>
> It doesn't have to be delete-region, it could be kill-region, which is
> bound to
> C-w.
What we really want here is `erase-buffer', since the point of clearing a
persistent scratch space is not to put its contents somewhere else but
rather to allow it to be used for other things. And if a prolific user
has written megabytes in *scratch*, putting that both on the undo list and
the kill ring when they really mean for it to be nowhere seems wrong.
It's not all that important; I just don't want it assumed that
non-standard modes (Transient Mark, Delete Selection, CUA, etc.) obviate
the need for a "true" interface to such a feature.
Davis
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- *scratch* buffer (was: A wish, a plea), David Reitter, 2007/06/22
- Re: *scratch* buffer (was: A wish, a plea), Jason Rumney, 2007/06/22
- Re: *scratch* buffer (was: A wish, a plea), David Reitter, 2007/06/22
- Re: *scratch* buffer (was: A wish, a plea), Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/22
- Re: *scratch* buffer (was: A wish, a plea), Davis Herring, 2007/06/27
- Re: *scratch* buffer (was: A wish, a plea), David House, 2007/06/28
- Re: *scratch* buffer (was: A wish, a plea),
Davis Herring <=
Re: *scratch* buffer (was: A wish, a plea), Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22
Re: *scratch* buffer (was: A wish, a plea), Davis Herring, 2007/06/27