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Re: AW: delete-selection-mode
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: AW: delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:35:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>>> telling users ... about the advantage having delsel-mode off.
>>
>> There is none.
>
> You can set the mark, move somewhere else, type stuff there, and return
> using C-x C-x, again typing stuff there, without destroying anything you
> have written.
>
> The mark is, well, a _mark_. Something you can set temporarily easily,
> later to return.
Do you really use this with t-t-m?
There is a simple principle wrt t-t-m: when the region is active then
keys change their usual meaning. With delete-selection-mode this
includes <delete> and other self-inserting keys in addition to
existing keys that already have a special meaning in t-m-m.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, (continued)
- RE: AW: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/17
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2010/03/18
- RE: AW: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/03/18
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Harald Hanche-Olsen, 2010/03/17
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Chad Brown, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Chad Brown, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Harald Hanche-Olsen, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Chong Yidong, 2010/03/18
- Re: AW: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/18