Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:04:08 -0500 "Mark T. B. Carroll" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > MTBC> Two things that Gnus does that really annoy me are: > MTBC> * If I select text in a message, only that text is quoted when I reply. > > That's a feature, I'm not sure why it should be changed. Why is it > harmful?
Featurism is in the eye of the beholder. Some applications, in my view, get steadily worse in the development that happens after the initial mature versions! This particular `feature' is never what I want. I copy and paste fragments of articles in checking them out in other applications, taking notes, etc. But then the selection has happened so when I get to replying, it just quotes a little bit of the article, so I have to undo the selection first, whether by going to some other article then back to that one, or using M-u to mark it unread, quit the group altogether, reenter it and go back to the article, or whatever. Maybe there's an easier way to get rid of the selection, but a high fraction of my selecting has nothing to do with what I might want to quote in reply, so having to undo it just causes me extra work for no gain. (nip) > I think to correct that, the child process needs to disassociate itself > from Emacs as its parent and that's pretty complicated (requires C calls > that are not available in ELisp AFAIK). Oh, that's a bit unfortunate! What happens is it starts up a web browser, say, then I get reminded of or linked to other things I want to check out, and in the same session after a while I'm now looking at things that are nothing to do with what I originally launched from emacs. This is especially bad with things like web browers, Acrobat Reader, etc., where, when I view different things from outside emacs, those attempts to view things attach to the existing emacs-spawned process instead of spawning a new viewer, and then they want to die with an application that never had anything to do with them. Mark _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
