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Re: delete-selection-mode


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:28:18 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux)

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> So do fringes, toolbars, menus, scrollbars, the splash screen, syntax
>>>>> highlighting and almost every other change we've made to Emacs over
>>>>> the years.
>>>>
>>>> None of them destroy your text given the same keystrokes.
>>>
>>> You can accidentally type C-w and destroy your text.
>>
>> C-y undoes the damage even in buffers without undo history.
>
> I meant the cases when deletion went unnoticed.  With the active region
> this is less likely, because you have a clear visual indication when
> the region is active.

You type C-w to pass the time?  Pretty much _all_ commands change the
buffer without warning.

-- 
David Kastrup





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