From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Delete Selection mode Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:44:40 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271966360 5052 80.91.229.12 (22 Apr 2010 19:59:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:59:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 22 21:59:19 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O52YQ-0007IG-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:59:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39736 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O52YQ-00051g-2H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O52KI-00066J-6P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:44:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52947 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O52KH-00065h-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:44:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O52KG-0006ww-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:44:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:47741) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O52KG-0006ws-H2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:44:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O52KG-0006wt-5C; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:44:40 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:124076 Archived-At: I thought I was trying Delete Selection mode, but I had turned it on with (setq delete-selection-mode t). A few days ago I discovered that was a no-op. So I started trying it for real. It has caused me annoying surprises every day, including just now finding that M-w C-y did not duplicate the region as I expected it to. (Instead it was a no-op.) I will keep trying it for a few more days.