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Re: delete-selection-mode


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:17:08 +0100

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>>     I think it is a very good suggestion to be able to have one color for
>>     regions that act in way compatible with almost every editing
>>     environment and one that acts in the way special to Emacs.
>>
>> I have nothing against this feature, but I point out that choosing
>> another color, and making it properly distinctive in two different
>> color environments (dark background and light background), is not
>> going to be easy.
>
> Even if you can find good colors, it's still a dreadfully bad interface.
>
> Having different colored regions, which act sometimes-the-same,
> sometimes-differently, is maybe _slightly_ better than having
> _identical-looking_ regions which act that way, but it's still very hard
> to use, and confusingly non-obvious (especially for naive users).


I think you are misunderstanding. The proposal was of course that the
colors should match how the region behaves.

Naive users will not be bothered by this since they will only see a
region that behaves like a region in other editing environments.




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