On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:21:43AM +0200, Vitaly S. wrote:
> "John J. Foerch" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:18:24AM +0200, Vitaly S. wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello everyone!
> >>
> >> First, from documentations I infer that set-mark should work outside
> >> caret-mode,
> >> even though the cursor is not visible. This does not work for me,
> >> C-space does not change the behavior of C-n, C-p.
> >>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > No, we don't have this feature.. I'm not sure what set-mark would do
> > without a visible caret..
> >
> There is a ghost caret though, after I-search, Sift-movement commands select
> the text. So C-space could just change the meaning of movement commands in the
> same spirit.
>
> I am extensively using text selection in my work. Currently I badly miss
> such emacs commands like forward-paragraph, mark-paragraph, forward-sentence
> in
> conjunction with marking.
>
> I might be wrong but at this point I really do not see compelling reasons for
> having two separate modes for navigation (i.e. caret/non-caret). It seems like
> they can happily coexist together, bringing powerful emacs-like functionality.
>
> Thanks,
> Vitaly.
It is a nice idea. It is also indistinguishable from strictly enhancing
caret-mode while leaving "normal" mode as it is. With an enhanced caret
mode, people who like the caret could have caret-mode enabled all the
time, and people who want an experience more like traditional gui browsers
("view/scroll mode") would not be affected. I agree that caret-mode is
pretty clunky right now, but it's been a low priority.
Making set-mark do something meaningful in normal-mode seems reasonable.
I'll put it on the list.
--
John Foerch
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