From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: 18412@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18412: 24.3.93 regression: undo boundary inserted by delete-selection-mode (CUA)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:50:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9gnffcv.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DD830153-3AE7-4539-8935-1975B856DE03@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Fri, 5 Sep 2014 12:37:06 -0400")
David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:
> This is a regression in the 24.4 pretest compared to 24.3.
>
> M-x cua-mode
> (enter and) select a word “hello", e.g., via double-click
> enter single char, e.g., “x”
> C-_ (undo)
>
> In Emacs 24.3, the undo will restore “hello”.
>
> In Emacs 24.3.93 pretest, the undo will only delete “x”, but not restore “hello”.
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Indeed, that's a difference between delete-selection-mode and cua's
> earlier reimplementation of the feature.
>
> To the extent that noone complained about it for delete-selection-mode,
> I think this bug is not super-urgent to fix. IOW, we should take the
> time to think how to fix it right.
This was six years ago, and cua-mode still works the same way, so at
this point, I think changing the behaviour now would probably be a
regression?
So I'm closing this bug as a "wontfix".
--
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2014-09-05 16:37 bug#18412: 24.3.93 regression: undo boundary inserted by delete-selection-mode (CUA) David Reitter
2014-09-08 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-09 9:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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