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AW: delete-selection-mode
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Berndl, Klaus |
Subject: |
AW: delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:19:50 +0100 |
>> But the Emacs team must take a decision: Is it a main goal for Emacs
>> to "acquire" many newcomers or is this not a main goal?!
>It is a goal, but not a main goal. And you won't acquire newcomers by
>swatting them with inconsistent and incomprehensible overall behavior
>for which no rationale can be given.
Here i fully agree. My vote is not especially for delete-selection-mode is on
as default but for a default behavior newcomer-people would expect when dealing
with
selections. And you are fully right with your request for a consistent behavior.
I admit i can not follow all your explanation and recommendations but i can say,
that i would find it best if the behavior would always be the same regardless
if the
selection was made by mouse or by keyboard: Always if there is a highlighted
selection then the behavior should be the same: DEL and self-inserting keys
delete the selection and do not affect the kill-ring. Or more generally: Emacs
should
handle highlighted selections by default exactly as any other program too, this
means
the way to create such selections and how to deal with them (For example i
always use
cua-mode and this mode works perfectly for what i want and - IMHO - what new
people
mostly expect from a program which supports inserting text)
There should be exactly one screw to switch this on and this screw should be
switched on
by default.
Klaus
--
David Kastrup
- RE: delete-selection-mode, (continued)
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/19
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Johan Bockgård, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Jason Rumney, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Berndl, Klaus, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- AW: delete-selection-mode,
Berndl, Klaus <=
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Miles Bader, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- RE: delete-selection-mode (was: Put scroll-bar on right by defaulton UNIX.), Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18