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Re: d-s-m default: Nil + explanation!
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: d-s-m default: Nil + explanation! |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:42:12 +0100 |
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Davis Herring <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> So you seriously believe that currently it is not possible for a
>>> prospective user to do even the simplest editing in Emacs.
>>
>> Yes I do.
>>
>> In simple editing I include that the visible region behaves as they do
>> in other editing environment. That is something I have seen people
>> using very frequently.
>
> But is that "the simplest editing" or merely "simple editing"? The former
> is more objective than the latter, because most of us would agree on an
> approximate order of complexity among editing operations, but it is quite
> arbitrary where to draw the line between "simple" operations and the
> others.
I do not think it is very arbitrary. I see people erasing/overwriting
the visible region all the time. And I see them selecting it with both
mouse and keyboard.
- d-s-m default: Nil + explanation! (was: d-s-m default), Memnon Anon, 2010/03/24
- RE: d-s-m default: Nil + explanation!, Drew Adams, 2010/03/25
- Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/25
- Re: Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/03/25
- Re: Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/26
- RE: Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m, Drew Adams, 2010/03/25
- Re: Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/25
- Re: Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m, mathias, 2010/03/26
- RE: Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m, Drew Adams, 2010/03/26
- Re: Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/26
- RE: Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m, Drew Adams, 2010/03/26