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24.4; M-v no longer works in CUA-mode. |
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Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:54:53 -0400 |
I have just upgraded from 23.? to 24.4, and found that two (for me)
essintial features of cua-mode no longer works:
- Deleted text is not saved automatically in register 0 when overwriting
highlighted region.
- M-v no longer performs the "repeat last replacement" functionality.
Both functions are documented in cua-base.el:
;; Typing text replaces the region
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;; When the region is active, i.e. highlighted, the text in region is
;; replaced by the text you type.
;; The replaced text is saved in register 0 which can be inserted using
;; the key sequence M-0 C-v (see the section on register support below).
;; If you have just replaced a highlighted region with typed text,
;; you can repeat the replace with M-v. This will search forward
;; for a stretch of text identical to the previous contents of the
;; region (i.e. the contents of register 0) and replace it with the
;; text you typed to replace the original region. Repeating M-v will
;; replace the next matching region and so on.
;;
;; Example: Suppose you have a line like this
;; The redo operation will redo the last redoable command
;; which you want to change into
;; The repeat operation will repeat the last repeatable command
;; This is done by highlighting the first occurrence of "redo"
;; and type "repeat" M-v M-v.
Since the basic functionality has now been split from cua-mode,
I think that those functions belongs in delsel (if anywhere).
Of course, the M-v binding should still only be active in cua-mode
(since cua-mode takes over C-v it can also use M-v).
I guess the functionality could be restored by suitable tweaking of
the region-extract-function -- I will look into that possibility.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
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