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From: | David Reitter |
Subject: | Re: delete-selection-mode |
Date: | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:29:09 +0100 |
On 22 Apr 2008, at 13:20, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
No, the arrow keys without shift do NOT deactivate the region; they deactivate the HIGHLIGHTING for the region. I am not only able to call `exchange-point-and-mark' (which I invoke with `C-x C-x'), which tells me the region continues to exist, but the highlighting reappears.
I've always found this behavior confusing. To keep the mark, that's fine and desirable (to do things like C-x C-x), but re-activating the region seems odd.
Jason Rumney wrote:
Here's a possible idea: enable delete-selection-mode by default but only after shift-selection and mouse-selection.
This would be great if highlighting serves as indication to the user. That is, enable delete-selection-mode by default if and only if the region is highlighted. Without the highlighting, you'd introduce an additional invisible mode, which is bad UI design.
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