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Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete
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Ian Zimmerman |
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Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:17:17 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Drew> interactions between Emacs selection/region and standard paste
Drew> buffers/clipboards/selections were changed, with no poll - and it
Drew> is not obvious to a user how to customize Emacs to get back the
Drew> old behavior.]
This is one of my few longtime gripes with Emacs, so I would be _very_
interested in the details of the change. Are they written up anywhere?
If not, could you summarize them here?
Drew> Transient mark mode is already turned on now in Emacs, by default.
Drew> The proposed change does not implement or replace delete-selection
Drew> mode. What it does is make DEL delete the active region. The
Drew> second proposed change lets characters you type replace the active
Drew> region.
Let us settle this once and for ever: would the proposal currently
under consideration change _anything_ for users who set
transient-mark-mode to nil ?
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