From: XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copy/paste issue.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:47:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obrc7ugv.fsf@Gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jl6g99$jpa$1@dough.gmane.org
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"Jérôme M. Berger" <jeberger@free.fr> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have an issue with copy/paste. Here are the steps to reproduce:
> * Select some text (say "foo") and copy it (M-w);
> * Select some other text (say "bar") and paste (C-y):
> -> The text "bar" is deleted and the text "foo" is inserted
> in its place;
> * Select yet some other text (say "zzz") and paste (C-y):
> -> Expected behavior: The text "zzz" is deleted and the text
> "foo" is inserted in its place;
> -> Actual behavior: The text "zzz" is deleted and the text
> "bar" is inserted in its place.
>
> This behavior is with my configuration files. If I start emacs with
> -Q, pasting over selected text does not erase the selection but
> inserts the pasted text at the cursor position. In that case,
> pasting multiple times always pastes "foo". I'm not sure what part
> of my configuration changes this behavior (grepping for "yank" and
> "kill" yields nothing obvious).
>
> I've looked through the docs and code for the "yank" and
> "kill-ring-save" functions but could not find anything.
>
> Can somebody give me pointers to what
> variables/functions/customizations I should check to get the
> behavior I want?
It should come from delete-selection-mode.
Anyway, bisect your configuration should be accurate.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-31 8:46 Copy/paste issue "Jérôme M. Berger"
2012-03-31 8:51 ` "Jérôme M. Berger"
2012-03-31 9:49 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-03-31 10:24 ` "Jérôme M. Berger"
2012-03-31 10:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-31 13:47 ` XeCycle [this message]
2012-03-31 15:14 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-01 7:59 ` "Jérôme M. Berger"
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2012-05-07 4:19 ` David Combs
2012-05-07 6:27 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-07 7:52 ` Yaoyuan
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2012-05-29 1:36 ` David Combs
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2012-05-29 1:40 ` David Combs
2012-05-29 13:53 ` Barry Margolin
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2012-03-31 15:44 Silvio Levy
2012-03-31 16:03 ` Drew Adams
2012-03-31 16:15 ` Peter Dyballa
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2012-05-07 4:46 ` David Combs
2012-05-07 6:09 ` Vladimir Murzin
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