From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre Oberlin" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:45:39 +0100 Organization: http://migo.info Message-ID: References: <5da6a556-646f-42ba-9bae-f5bf4387f09e@googlegroups.com> <84da4496-944e-4192-ac09-b5bfc0992f3f@googlegroups.com> <70837df3-23f5-416b-8e0a-b9f105f7a40c@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452790230 27107 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2016 16:50:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:50:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 14 17:50:29 2016 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 1aJl6M-0003iK-4Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:50:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43707 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJl6I-0007zP-Eq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:50:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp4-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jan 2016 17:45:32 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.34.197.80 Original-X-Trace: 1452789932 news-3.free.fr 3293 151.34.197.80:53609 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216446 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:108736 Archived-At: Hi Kaushal, Thanks for your suggestion. I am currently on Cygwin only, but I use different fonts on different systems, depending on what is available. If I explicitly define a region with e.g. SHIFT+arrow key, it is always perfectly visible. M-x describe-face RET region RET (after points 1.2.3. of previous message): Face: region (sample) (customize this face) Documentation: Basic face for highlighting the region. Defined in `faces.el'. Family: unspecified Foundry: unspecified Width: unspecified Height: unspecified Weight: unspecified Slant: unspecified Foreground: unspecified DistantForeground: unspecified Background: blue3 Underline: unspecified Overline: unspecified Strike-through: unspecified Box: unspecified Inverse: unspecified Stipple: unspecified Font: unspecified Fontset: unspecified Inherit: unspecified When I say "invisible region", I mean that it appears just like normal text. > PS: All the developers who responded to you have been very polite. They > all have been very helpful to me. I respect all of them. Yeah, I even praised gnu.emacs.help in a blog of mine, and I stuck to GNU Emacs even when XEemacs was all the rage. But that apparently does not prevent GNU Emacs from self-immolation, notably on the altar of mainstream compatibility. Cheers, Alexandre