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Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text |
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Sun, 03 Jan 2016 03:25:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Alexandre Oberlin <alxobr@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 12:05:17 AM UTC+1, Drew Adams wrote:
>
> > Apologies for not following this thread. But offhand I'd say that
> > there's your problem right there: you enable `delete-selection-mode'
> > but you disable `transient-mark-mode'. That should be a no-no.
> Oh my dear, I managed to hit a no-no! But if it's a no-no why is it
> possible in the first place? Why ain't there a single warning? Where
> are emacs's no-nos listed? Where is the checkbox and message saying "I
> agree not to do any emacs no-no, even if I don't know what they are"?
> Are you serious?
I think there was much confusion in the thread, no doubt did the
nihilistic tone of Alexandre inhibit a fruitful discussion.
Drew only wanted to help. But I think he was wrong with what he said.
I think it's ok to use the two modes at the same time. In the sentence
Drew cited:
When Delete Selection mode is enabled, Transient Mark mode is also
^^
enabled, typed text replaces the selection if the selection is active,
and DEL deletes the selection.
I think there is an "and" missing, and the sentence means something
different from what we thought.
The current docstring (in my Emacs 25) says:
When Delete Selection mode is enabled, typed text replaces the
selection if the selection is active. Otherwise, typed text is just
inserted at point regardless of any selection.
With `transient-mark-mode' off, you can mark a region (i.e., turn on
transient mark mode temporarily) by hitting C-SPC twice. Only then does
delete-selection-mode replace the region. In any other case (when the
region is not visible, i.e. not active) transient-mark-mode is just off,
and delete-selection-mode should not delete the region, never.
So I think the behavior he sometimes gets could indeed be a bug. Would
be good to have a bug report, and it would be good if Alexandre would
try to find a recipe so that we can find out what's going on (this could
also be caused by some add on package) and fix the issue when necessary.
Michael.
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Alexandre Oberlin, 2016/01/02
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/01/02
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- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Alexandre Oberlin, 2016/01/02
- RE: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Drew Adams, 2016/01/02
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- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Alexandre Oberlin, 2016/01/02
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/01/02
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- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Alexandre Oberlin, 2016/01/02
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/01/02
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Robert Thorpe, 2016/01/02
- RE: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Drew Adams, 2016/01/02
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text,
Michael Heerdegen <=
- RE: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Drew Adams, 2016/01/02
- RE: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Drew Adams, 2016/01/02
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Yuri Khan, 2016/01/02
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Random832, 2016/01/03
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- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Alexandre Oberlin, 2016/01/13
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Stefan Monnier, 2016/01/14
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- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Alexandre Oberlin, 2016/01/14
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Kaushal Modi, 2016/01/14
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/14
- Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/01/14