Re: [PATCH] Time to consider pending-del default

This discussion doesn't belong on xemacs-patches, trimming. Steven> Not only do I find Pending Delete preferable, I don't even Steven> understand the reason it should ever being turned Steven> off. What's the point of having an active selection if not Steven> to operate on it with the following editing commands? None. The question is "active with respect to _which_ editing commands?" Some people have very strong preference for modeless operation (aka "explicit is better than implicit"), and pending delete means that both marking a region and insertion have unobvious side-effects: marking changes the mode of insertion implicitly, and insertion may or may not involve an implicit deletion depending on the presence of a region, which need not be visible (eg, if point is in the far upper left or lower right of the window). I would argue that historically Emacs hackers have been of that persuasion, thus the resistence to pending delete mode as a default. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.