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RE: TAB for non-editing modes


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: TAB for non-editing modes
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:33:22 -0700

> >> Doing this with kill commands would take away a feature: you can use
> >> them in read-only buffers to copy text to the kill ring.  That feature
> >> may not be very useful in read-only buffers, but I am not convinced it
> >> is an improvement to make it entirely unavailable there.
> >
> > Granted. But it could be argued that this "feature" is really a 
> > bug that we exploit (because it seems useful) ;-). Because it is
> > inconsistent with normal use (killing) of those commands/keys,
> > it promotes user error and possibly confusion. The user does not
> > even get proper feedback about this "trick" - s?he still gets
> > the read-only error message/reminder, and there is no indication
> > that anything was copied. I don't know if this "feature" is
> > even documented.
> 
> Of course it is. There even exists an option to remove the read-only
> error--`kill-read-only-ok'.

Cough; hack.

Why is this better than using the corresponding standard copy commands? What do 
we gain by this complexity and inconsistency?





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