From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Alexandre Oberlin <alxobr@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:37:49 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8f41de8-d819-4986-a915-bef4e6428ee0@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5da6a556-646f-42ba-9bae-f5bf4387f09e@googlegroups.com>
> I have stopped hoping that the current maintainers of Emacs still have an
> ounce of common sense. How on Earth can it be possible (and quite easy) to
> allow replacing a huge hidden selection when pasting text without any
> warning ? I have lost large amounts of data with this incredibly stupid
> behavior. There isn't even a warning when saving a file which has shrunk a
> lot, like there once was. How can I DEFINITELY avoid overwriting an
> invisible selection in all versions of Emacs?
I can tell you are upset, and I would be too, no doubt. But if you
can describe what you did in more detail it would help.
At the very least it might help others avoid the same gotcha that
apparently bit you. This is a user help list, and most people
reading it and contributing to it are users, like you.
If you can provide a step-by-step recipe to describe what you did
and what happened, that can also serve as a bug report or enhancement
request, which you can post using `M-x report-emacs-bug'.
HTH.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-24 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-24 1:01 Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text Alexandre Oberlin
2015-12-24 1:37 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-12-24 13:27 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2015-12-24 23:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-25 1:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.529.1451006347.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-02 21:40 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-02 22:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.1550.1451772215.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-02 22:28 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-02 23:04 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1551.1451775915.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-03 0:11 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-03 0:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.1554.1451780942.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-03 0:41 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-03 1:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-03 2:10 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-01-03 2:11 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 2:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-03 3:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 3:21 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 4:09 ` Yuri Khan
2016-01-03 5:08 ` Random832
[not found] ` <mailman.1572.1451797753.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-13 17:13 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-14 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2334.1452780465.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-14 15:35 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-14 16:11 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-01-14 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-14 16:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-14 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2341.1452787916.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-14 16:45 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-14 17:05 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-01-14 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2359.1452800411.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-14 23:41 ` Alexandre Oberlin
[not found] ` <mailman.1570.1451794187.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-13 16:42 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-13 17:54 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.2302.1452707668.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-14 13:57 ` Alexandre Oberlin
[not found] ` <mailman.1564.1451787927.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-13 17:26 ` Alexandre Oberlin
[not found] ` <mailman.528.1450998293.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-14 14:00 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-14 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-24 5:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-12-24 14:40 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-12-27 22:15 ` Robert Thorpe
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