From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Copy/paste issue. Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:14:01 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87obrc7ugv.fsf@Gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333206866 7556 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2012 15:14:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:14:26 +0000 (UTC) To: "'XeCycle'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 31 17:14:23 2012 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 1SE00U-0006bS-TC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:14:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43571 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE00U-0007OO-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54992) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE00P-0007Ne-Bh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:14:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE00N-0001aM-GT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:14:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:20845) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE00N-0001a6-A8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:14:15 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q2VFE9ET031022 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:14:10 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2VFE8om007149 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:14:09 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt109.oracle.com (abhmt109.oracle.com [141.146.116.61]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q2VFE8Fe020802; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:14:08 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.47.251) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:14:08 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87obrc7ugv.fsf@Gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac0PROlNDoF4vMypRG6mtvLx8CjA/QACS5pg X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090204.4F771F42.0076,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:84227 Archived-At: > It should come from delete-selection-mode. A must, IMHO. > Anyway, bisect your configuration should be accurate. > - Carl Lei (XeCycle) >> I could, but my configuration files total over 5000 >> lines in 24 files, so I'd rather not if I can avoid it :) Carl is right about bisecting. It does not matter how large your init file is or how many other files it loads. That's the point of binary search. It's easy for any of us (mea culpa) to forget this and think that it will be easier to just ponder a little more or act on a hunch or two wrt where the problem might arise (aka "if I can avoid it"). This feeling gets reinforced by the fact that things seem to progress very slowly with binary search, at first. Remind yourself of the story of the inventor of chess and the king: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth#Rice_on_a_chessboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_half_of_the_chessboard