Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text

[Alexandre Oberlin]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:37:40 +0100, Stefan Monnier  
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > It might not conform to the "philosophy" behind transient-mark-mode,  
> > but in
> > GNU Emacs 24.5.1 kill-region DOES CONSISTENTLY kill an invisible
> > (unactivated) region, also when transient-mark-mode is  enabled, and  
> > even if
> > delete-selection-mode is off.
>
> This part is normal.  And under the control of `mark-even-if-inactive'.
Sure. I initially made this remark as a simple precision to the following:
On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 06:08:59 +0100, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>  
wrote:
> C) IMO delete-selection-mode should never cause text in a non-active
> region to be deleted.
The effectiveness of CTRL+W within transient-mark-mode is logical when one  
remembers that 2 CTRL+SPACE in a row actually disable temporarily  
transient-mark-mode. BTW I did not notice any difference when changing  
`mark-even-if-inactive'.

Alexandre