Re: [Devel] Re: questions: selection

2003-11-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:27:56PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2003 3:25 pm, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I question the utility of this feature. > > That's not really relevant to the original discussion. Now why should we break tradition? Andre'

Re: [Devel] Re: questions: selection

2003-11-28 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 28 November 2003 3:25 pm, Andre Poenitz wrote: > I question the utility of this feature. That's not really relevant to the original discussion. Alfredo was trying to ascertain what the existing code was trying to do. > General marks _are_ useful, but in LyX I'd probably implement them

Re: [Devel] Re: questions: selection

2003-11-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:12:28PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2003 3:04 pm, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > Copy the buffer from the 'set-mark' point to the current cursor > > > position. (M-w in emacs shortcut notation.) > > > > Is there just a single one of these buffers? > >

Re: [Devel] Re: questions: selection

2003-11-28 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 28 November 2003 3:04 pm, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Copy the buffer from the 'set-mark' point to the current cursor > > position. (M-w in emacs shortcut notation.) > > Is there just a single one of these buffers? It appears so, yes. At least trying to set the mark in two views of the same

Re: [Devel] Re: questions: selection

2003-11-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:44:50PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2003 1:46 pm, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > > On Friday 28 November 2003 14:37, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Is this like emacs' 'mark'? Ie, we 'mark' the start of the > > > selection buffer. Angus (being thick and l

Re: [Devel] Re: questions: selection

2003-11-28 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
On Friday 28 November 2003 15:44, Angus Leeming wrote: > [...]to copy all text from the current cursor position to the end of the > document. Indeed, I think it can be the case (it seems to be more or less coherent with how it is used in the code). Thanks for the explanation. Alfredo

Re: [Devel] Re: questions: selection

2003-11-28 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 28 November 2003 1:46 pm, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2003 14:37, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Is this like emacs' 'mark'? Ie, we 'mark' the start of the selection > > buffer. Angus (being thick and lazy) > > Possibly. What's good for, in emacs? How does it work? Some t

Re: [Devel] Re: questions: selection

2003-11-28 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
On Friday 28 November 2003 14:37, Angus Leeming wrote: > Is this like emacs' 'mark'? Ie, we 'mark' the start of the selection > buffer. Angus (being thick and lazy) Possibly. What's good for, in emacs? How does it work? > ps, could you cc lyx-devel when mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message >