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Re: Selection changes
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: Selection changes |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:49:51 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> 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).
A valid point. We can give the current system a shot; if ordinary
active regions grabbing the primary selection turns out not to be a
nuisance in practice, that is fine.
- Re: Selection changes, (continued)
- Re: Selection changes, Yann Hodique, 2010/07/14
- Re: Selection changes, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/07/14
- Re: Selection changes, Richard Stallman, 2010/07/15
- Re: Selection changes, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/07/16
- 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, 2010/07/16
- Re: Selection changes,
Chong Yidong <=
- RE: Selection changes, Drew Adams, 2010/07/22
- Re: Selection changes, Chong Yidong, 2010/07/22
- Re: Selection changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/23
- Re: Selection changes, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/07/24
- Re: Selection changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/24
- 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
- Re: Selection changes, Chong Yidong, 2010/07/17