From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Xah Lee'" <xahlee@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: can a command specify overwrite selection behavior?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:16:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DEC888DD4B6E4989BEB8C5C61B47A935@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92235e12-464c-41d9-9a49-33598c157113@i25g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
> > To see that it works, bind it to a key and then use the key:
> > (global-set-key [insert] 'insert-date)
>
> thanks Drew for this tip. I didn't know about it.
> btw, why the distinction on how the command is called?
When you hit a key to invoke a command, you are not passing through `M-x'.
> all i recall about this issue is that i entered a bug report and
> Richard Stallman specifically don't consider it a bug.
I agree with him that it is not a bug. But none of us (you, me, or even His
Grand Gnuness) is perfect. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-13 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-01 5:33 can a command specify overwrite selection behavior? Xah Lee
2010-09-01 8:11 ` Xah Lee
2010-12-10 23:37 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1292024249.16140.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-12 15:16 ` Xah Lee
2010-12-13 17:16 ` Drew Adams [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1292262212.1009.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-22 14:49 ` Xah Lee
2010-12-22 17:12 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1293037975.895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-23 2:33 ` Xah Lee
2010-12-25 0:17 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2010-12-25 17:00 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.8.1293296501.5624.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-25 18:54 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2010-12-26 0:32 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-26 2:20 ` Xah Lee
2010-12-26 16:19 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-28 2:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-28 5:34 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-28 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
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