From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 18090@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18090: 24.4.50; `delete-selection-helper' logic changed for non-mouse region?
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 01:50:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874leju83n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f40f2b79-2945-4b1e-b8df-d9918cc51e21@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:55:58 -0700 (PDT)")
>> I see that mouse operations are not supported by delete-selection-mode
>> anyway - yanking with <mouse-2> doesn't replace the selected region,
>
> Huh? I kill some text (or copy it to the kill-ring). Then I select some
> other text with the mouse. Then I type or I yank. The typed or
> yanked text replaces the mouse-selected text. What am I missing?
You are missing the <mouse-2> part above.
>> so the whole
>> (when (and (string= (buffer-substring-no-properties
>> (point) (mark)) (car kill-ring))
>> (fboundp 'mouse-region-match)
>> (mouse-region-match))
>> (current-kill 1))
>> could be deleted altogether.
>
> Why would we do that? That's been there forever - except for the
> mouse-region-match part that you added (subject of this report).
Not true, mouse-region-match part has been there exactly as long
as without it.
>> I don't understand this bug report too - in fact, there is no bug,
>> the purpose of the old change was to remove gratuitous optimization
>> that breaks keyboard macros (the result of yanking should not depend
>> on differences between old and new text),
>
> Sorry, but I don't understand that. What old change? What
> optimization? What macro breakage (example)? What old and
> new text? No idea what you're saying, there.
Please read the detailed explanations on the thread in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg01642.html
>> and nobody complained during last 10+ years.
>
> I filed this bug report 4 years ago.
What bug? The bug was already fixed long ago.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-20 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-23 18:02 bug#18090: 24.4.50; `delete-selection-helper' logic changed for non-mouse region? Drew Adams
2018-04-03 21:06 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-19 17:51 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-20 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-20 15:04 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-20 20:52 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-20 21:55 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-20 22:50 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2018-09-24 1:35 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-24 19:08 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-24 21:16 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-25 19:02 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-21 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-20 13:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-21 18:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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