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#60646
28.2; delete-selection-mode
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Reported by: "Redekopp, Eric" <err291 <at> mail.usask.ca>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2023 07:06:01 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Found in version 28.2
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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[சனி ஜனவரி 14, 2023] Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> > The _only_ problem I personally have with delete-selection-mode is
> > that it also replaces the region created by the likes of "C-x C-x",
> > something that "most software out there" does not and cannot do. If
> > we were to change delete-selection-mode to replace only highlighted
> > text created by mouse selections or by shift-selections, I think we
> > could then enable it by default without much resistance, because
> > typing a character or DEL after explicitly selecting text is many
> > orders of magnitude less probable to be a mistake than when we make
> > the region active by other means.
> — <83o9d5q1bi.fsf <at> gnu.org>
>
> Enlightening; I personally C-x C-x C-g without a second thought when
> all I want is to "jump to mark" (or I use C-u C-SPC). I use C-x C-x
> mostly for its region-activating effect (typically after C-y), rather
> than for its point-mark-swap effect, and I expect delete-selection-mode
> to clobber stuff I highlight with region-activating commands (C-M-SPC,
> C-x h, C-M-h, M-h, C-SPC + [move around]).
>
> But I understand how adding an option to control that would make sense)
I had the same problem with delete-selection-mode: mark and region is
different from how "selection" works in other editors so deleting the
active region in all cases was more disruptive than I anticipated.
I hope delete-selection-temporary-region solves this problem for
everyone like it did for me when I proposed the patch.
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