Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text

[Andreas Röhler]

On 24.12.2015 02:01, Alexandre Oberlin wrote:
> I have stopped hoping that the current maintainers of Emacs still have an ounce 
> of common sense. How on Earth can it be possible (and quite easy) to allow 
> replacing a huge hidden selection when pasting text without any warning ? I 
> have lost large amounts of data with this incredibly stupid behavior. There 
> isn't even a warning when saving a file which has shrunk a lot, like there once 
> was. How can I DEFINITELY avoid overwriting an invisible selection in all 
> versions of Emacs?

Hi Alexandre,

as Pascal responded already, assuming such thing seems wrong.
Nonetheless thanks coming forward with this.
All kind of mistakes happen, let's speak about and solve it rather than 
mimic for the sake of CoCs.

Also there is a trade between freedom and security. Emacs tends to the 
first AFAIU.

Cheers,

Andreas