From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:25:21 -0700 Message-ID: <875z9gg5qm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <86r1s648dc.fsf@shell.gmplib.org> <86wo1xz4lt.fsf@shell.gmplib.org> <83imdhgsqo.fsf@gnu.org> <86blj9xc2z.fsf@shell.gmplib.org> <87blj8gbmh.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878secyj10.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3568"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:OiT9VCkbxTI/Erahec9RSRfKN5M= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 18 02:26:09 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k7pS5-0000pE-Qx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 02:26:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57260 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7pS4-00042g-UI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7pRT-000419-QG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:36784 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7pRS-0002Qf-7N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k7pRO-000Acb-9q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 02:25:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/08/17 10:21:47 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -8 X-Spam_score: -0.9 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123704 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor writes: > Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >>>> Mark a region, immediately press e.g. "A". >>>> The region is zapped and replaced by an A. >>>> >>>> That used to insert an A at the insert point >>>> since TECO emacs until a few releases back. >>> >>> Still does for me in a vanilla Emacs. Maybe it's >>> something in your config? >> >> Sounds like cua-mode... > > Yes, I just tried this and can confirm the "zap" > behavior is there only after `cua-mode' with -Q in > > GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) of > 2019-09-23, modified by Debian > > One thing I wonder tho is... why do you mark a region > and press "A" to begin with? What's the purpose of > doing that? If the "zap" isn't what you want, > that is? Almost by coincidence, I just discovered `delete-selection-mode', which does the same thing. I also don't understand the utility of this, but apparently it's useful enough to have been implemented twice! Neither should be active by default, though.