From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 01:21:29 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <873cy9nsom.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <87ofh09xjq.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <200204050602.g3562Dl18586@aztec.santafe.edu> <87bscx7rlf.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <3791-Sat06Apr2002101927+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018081516 20594 127.0.0.1 (6 Apr 2002 08:25:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:25:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16tlVc-0005M3-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:25:16 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16tlj0-0007ji-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:39:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tlUa-0000Rv-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 03:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tlSR-0000No-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 03:21:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.157] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b8) with ESMTP id 438239 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 01:07:53 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16tlRy-0001Iq-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 01:21:30 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 In-Reply-To: <3791-Sat06Apr2002101927+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> ("Eli Zaretskii"'s message of "Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:19:27 +0300") Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2405 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2405 >>>>> On Sat Apr 6, Eli writes: > If most uses of text yanking want this rule, I think it makes sense > to have it globally enabled. Lisp programs which don't want that > can always remove the properties before inserting the text. How can I control the behavior of C-y? >> In the majority of cases, I think property copying is the wrong >> thing to do. > FWIW, my impression is exactly the opposite. Well, I can't say much except that I've been bitten by copying them, but haven't noticed the value of the flipside much. Anyway, Emacs is all about flexibility, and not requiring a particular modus just because "it's always done that". How about that buffer-local variable? John