From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: D. Goel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to cut and paste in emacs editor without special character interpretation, ie raw mode Date: 27 Sep 2002 11:58:31 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87it0rh1aw.fsf@computer.localdomain> References: <9e8ebeb2.0209262005.22fa2ddb@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033142862 30024 127.0.0.1 (27 Sep 2002 16:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17uxeX-0007o7-00 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:07:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17uxej-0003l5-00; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:07:53 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 19 Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105398 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1947 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1947 > I can copy and paste in notepad without problem. > I can copy and paste in vi or vim without problem. > I can copy and paste in emacs with problem. It interprets some characters. > Is there a way to paste in a raw mode where it does not interpret any > character? > > The problems are incomplete paste, deletion, cursor jumps. These problems had always happened for me on windows, where windows, for instance, has a real-smart "smartquote" feature which converted the ' character and others into special control characters... Perhaps it has more "smart" features causing more problems (?) They all go away when one switches to gnulinux :) DG http://24.197.159.102/~deego/ --