From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 15:40:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <567C03D0.7080402@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5da6a556-646f-42ba-9bae-f5bf4387f09e@googlegroups.com>
On 24.12.2015 02:01, Alexandre Oberlin wrote:
> 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?
>
Hi Alexandre,
as Pascal responded already, assuming such thing seems wrong.
Nonetheless thanks coming forward with this.
All kind of mistakes happen, let's speak about and solve it rather than
mimic for the sake of CoCs.
Also there is a trade between freedom and security. Emacs tends to the
first AFAIU.
Cheers,
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-24 14:40 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
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 [this message]
2015-12-27 22:15 ` Robert Thorpe
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