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Re: Selection changes
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Selection changes |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:30:14 +0900 |
Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
> But I think select-active-regions needs further improvement. Perhaps
> its default behavior should be as follows: for an active region created
> using shift-selection or mouse dragging, Emacs supplies the region text
> to primary. When such a region is deactivated, Emacs disowns primary
> (as some other apps do, tho not Firefox). For an active region created
> simply with C-SPC, no special x-selection handling should be performed.
I don't like things that make selections magic depending on how they
were selected; it just makes the interface more confusing and
discourages people from learning new commands.
A selection should be a selection, to the greatest extent possible
(there are some exceptions, like shift-selections auto-deselecting, but
that's much less confusing because it's an immediate and visually
obvious effect, and fits people's shift-select muscle-memory).
-miles
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- Re: Selection changes, Richard Stallman, 2010/07/15
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- Re: Selection changes, Miles Bader, 2010/07/16
- Re: Selection changes, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/07/16
- Re: Selection changes, Chong Yidong, 2010/07/16
- Re: Selection changes,
Miles Bader <=
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- RE: Selection changes, Drew Adams, 2010/07/22
- Re: Selection changes, Chong Yidong, 2010/07/22
- Re: Selection changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/23
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- Re: Selection changes, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/07/24
- Re: Selection changes, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/07/25
- Re: Selection changes, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/07/16
- Re: Selection changes, Chong Yidong, 2010/07/16