From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode hard to turn off Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:23:31 +0100 Message-ID: <47810083.5000904@gmx.at> References: <87ejd19m3c.fsf@jidanni.org> <87myrl9ezy.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199637829 15074 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 16:43:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:43:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 17:44:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBYbZ-0000Cq-9F for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:44:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBYbC-00007d-Dy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:43:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBYaS-0007ta-Q3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:43:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBYaO-0007r1-Ra for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:43:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBYaO-0007qr-PD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:42:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBYaO-0003Qq-8w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:42:56 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Jan 2008 16:42:55 -0000 Original-Received: from M3165P014.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [88.117.43.142]) [88.117.43.142] by mail.gmx.net (mp016) with SMTP; 06 Jan 2008 17:42:55 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19GQTkher9G7VHxwP8pUrpTK07QvbHcNxRAqmqy8a gh0xrl14Pk+6oA User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87myrl9ezy.fsf@jidanni.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17316 Archived-At: > I have solved my problem. I find I must put (delete-selection-mode -1) > at the bottom of my 400 line http://jidanni.org/comp/.emacs file. > Putting it in the middle ends up getting it mysteriously toggled back on. And what happens when you put it around line 300? Or, better, look where it gets called from in the first place? No part of GNU Emacs but `pc-selection-mode' and CUA ever turn `delete-selection-mode' on (and CUA does so iff it was turned on before), hence the culprit must be a dubious package you obtained from somewhere else.