Re: delete-selection-mode

[David Kastrup]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>>> But other than that, shift-selection should be the same as t-m-m-style
>>> selection as far as possible -- for instance, there should not be a
>>> different set of commands available for "shift-selected" regions than
>>> there are for regions created using traditional Emacs commands.
>>
>> I think some of these problems have been addressed in cua-mode. Maybe
>> it would be good to use what is in cua-mode more?
>
> Er, what "problems" do you mean?  Shift-select (without CUA mode) works
> quite well currently.  What I'm arguing against is David/RMS's apparent
> goal of making shift-select _worse_...

I was proposing folding the semantics of shift-select and mouse-select.
You think that would imply making shift-select worse, but we could
probably achieve it by making mouse-select better instead.

-- 
David Kastrup