From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandre Oberlin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:40:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <84da4496-944e-4192-ac09-b5bfc0992f3f@googlegroups.com> References: <5da6a556-646f-42ba-9bae-f5bf4387f09e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451771121 21979 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2016 21:45:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 21:45:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 02 22:45:20 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aFTzE-0002ns-8I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 22:45:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39822 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFTzD-0005f5-MZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:45:19 -0500 X-Received: by 10.50.159.100 with SMTP id xb4mr60134387igb.11.1451770819227; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:40:19 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.36.3 with SMTP id m3mr1184376igj.0.1451770819202; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:40:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!mv3no24672777igc.0!news-out.google.com!f6ni41259igq.0!nntp.google.com!mv3no24672767igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=151.57.18.113; posting-account=IWjTFQoAAAAFS3md63aQJ_ttNKJFTj1L Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.57.18.113 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 21:40:19 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216288 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108578 Archived-At: Hello Pascal, Thanks for your reply. On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 2:19:10 AM UTC+1, Pascal J. Bourguignon wro= te: > Again, this is clearly explained by customizations you've done, not by > the behavior of emacs which is perfectly safe. You can test it > yourself:=20 I guess that by "the behavior of emacs" you mean "the behavior of emacs -q" [...] > But try to put yourself in the shoes of programmers who want to be able > to modify their program to their taste and needs! We need to have > programming documentation of each function in that software to be able > to use them in your modifications and additions! Having an exhaustive documentation of each function is great. Inconsiderate= ly overloading basic user functions not that much. BTW aren't your 2 quoted sentences above a bit contradictory to each other? There is absolutely nothing special in the configuration I currently use. I= just had to disable transient-mode because highlighting almost the whole b= uffer during isearch as well as extending (and highlighting) the region wit= hout pressing SHIFT is not my cup of tea. BTW I read this funny thing in the set-mark-command help: > When Transient Mark Mode is off, immediately repeating this > command activates `transient-mark-mode' temporarily. That is actually the only recipe I found to avoid the fatal overwriting! > In any case, you don't get a say about it: we're the programmers. http://migo.info/images/index.jpeg Cheers,