bug#5765: Strange things happens with C-v in read-file-name

[Lennart Borgman]

Nothing happened to this so I am sending this again. Could this please
be fixed before the release?

Kim, could you perhaps comment on this? Could the line

   (setq cua-inhibit-cua-keys t)

be removed?


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> Please bisect your customizations to find the minimally reproducible
>>>> test case.
>>>
>>> I have not been able to do that. However I know that I get the same
>>> problem with for example
>>>
>>>   M-: (completing-read "my prompt: " '("a" "b"))
>>>
>>> I can't find any involved variable that looks suspect. Could you maybe
>>> come up with something to check?
>>
>> If this is so simple to reproduce with customizations, I don't see why
>> it should be so difficult to bisect the customizations and find the
>> problem.  It's far easier than asking others to deduce the bug from
>> first principles.
>
>
> Of course I have tried that, but I could not find the problem. I
> needed to do certain things after to make it happens.
>
> Now I think I have found the problem. In ido-minibuffer-setup (in
> ido.el) there is a line
>
>    (setq cua-inhibit-cua-keys t)
>
> I have had that commented out for long in my patched version of Emacs,
> but forgot to tell about it. Some merging breaked this.
>
> I see no reason why it should be there. Could it please be removed (or
> commented out) if no one else sees a reason for it? (Then we have to
> find another way to solve this bug.)
>