transient-mark-mode is currently disabled by default, and has a menu item to easily enable it. delete-selection-mode is disabled too, but has no menu item to enable it. What about adding it to the Option menu? delete-selection-mode is no less useful than transient-mark-mode, especially for beginners.
The menu item for transient-mark-mode is named "Active Region Highlighting". What would be a good menu name for delete-selection-mode? 1. "Active Region Highlighting" would be clearer as simply "Highlight Selection" or "Highlight Active Selection". It is generally better to use verb phrases for menu items, and that is especially helpful for toggles, IMO. There is currently a mixture of verb phrases (e.g. "Enter Debugger on Error") and noun phrases (e.g. "Active Region Highlighting"). Using verb phrases for all Options menu items would mean changing: - "Syntax Highlighting" to "Highlight Syntactically" or "Highlight Syntax" - "Paren Match Highlighting" to "Highlight Matching Parentheses" or "Highlight Parentheses" - "Word Wrap in Text Modes" to "Wrap Words in Text Modes" - "Case-Insensitive Search" to "Search Case Insensitively" or (if toggle were flipped) "Search Case Sensitively" - "C-x/C-c/C-v Cut and Paste (CUA)" to "Use C-x, C-c, C-v to Cut, Copy, Paste" - "Automatic File De/compression" to "(De)Compress Files Automatically" - "Blinking Cursor" to "Let Cursor Blink" or "Blink Cursor" The submenus correctly use verb phrases already, for the most part. 2. "Type Over Selection", "Overwrite Selection", or "Overwrite Active Selection" might be OK for delete-selection-mode. 3. If we generally use "region" in menus instead of "selection", then the above would become "Highlight Active Region" and "Overwrite Active Region" (or "Highlight Region" and "Overwrite Region"). _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug