From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tak Ota Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 19:56:38 -0800 (PST) Organization: Sony Electronics Inc. Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020406.195638.60851661.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018151838 7701 127.0.0.1 (7 Apr 2002 03:57:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 03:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16u3nq-000206-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 05:57:18 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16u41a-00007R-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 06:11:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16u3nc-0006B6-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 22:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail6.fw-bc.sony.com ([160.33.98.73]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16u3nN-00069o-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 22:56:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail2.sjc.in.sel.sony.com (mail2.sjc.in.sel.sony.com [43.134.1.111]) by mail6.fw-bc.sony.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA21989; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 03:56:43 GMT Original-Received: by mail2.sjc.in.sel.sony.com id DAA23675; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 03:56:40 GMT Original-To: keichwa@gmx.net, ke@gnu.franken.de In-Reply-To: X-Telephone: +1-858-942-3239 X-Fax------: +1-858-942-9142 X-SnailMail: 16450 West Bernardo Drive MZ7205, San Diego, CA 92127-1804 X-Mailer: Mew version 3.0.54 on Emacs 21.2.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2436 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2436 Sat, 06 Apr 2002 20:30:18 +0200: Karl Eichwalder wr= ote: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > = > > I wonder what do DTP and word processing programs do? I guess if y= ou > > copy an italic word from one place to another it stays italic. > = > Yes and that's plain wrong--as a user I sufferd by this behavior. If= > you copy a word from a (bold) title line you don't want to stay the > word bold within your running text. > = > Only hackers believe that that's a feature. I think non-hackers perceive things in WYSIWYG way, meaning if they copy bold test they expect to paste bold text as well. Only hackers perceive text as data structure consisting of two parts, essential character code portion and optional property (attribute) portion. -Tak