Re: C-w in summary when the region is not active

[Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> wrote:

> Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:
> 
> > In the summary buffer, wouldn't it be nice if on C-w gnus marked the
> > message under the point as "read" if nothing was marked, instead of
> > telling about the region which is not active?
> 
> That would make that function behave different than anything else in
> XEmacs?  If you want to mark the current message, why don't you just
> press `d'?

Of course I can press 'd'. But for me it seemed natural that the 'mark
selected as read' command would mark the current message if none were
selected. Probably because I never use C-w in my editing (coming from
"PC background" :) I use C/S-ins and C-del for cut/copy/paste
operations, I didn't even know what it did outside Gnus till now,
hence the consistency of its behavior was lost on me... But I still
think that what I suggested makes sense, and is intuitive. Besides,
marking articles as read and killing a region are not the same
activities anyway, so the fact that C-w kills the region in normal
editing is not more than just a helpful way to remember what it does
while reading news. And, why do I have to remember 2 different keys
(C-w and d) whereas one should be more than enough? Of course, all
above is MHO.

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.