From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_R=c3=b6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 15:40:16 +0100 Message-ID: <567C03D0.7080402@easy-emacs.de> References: <5da6a556-646f-42ba-9bae-f5bf4387f09e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450968019 30989 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2015 14:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:40:19 +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 Dec 24 15:40:05 2015 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 1aC73k-0002nv-Rb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 15:40:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60417 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aC73k-0001K8-Cw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 09:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aC73a-0001Jj-7K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 09:39:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aC73X-0000dm-1f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 09:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.24]:61146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aC73W-0000dV-Pi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 09:39:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.32] ([77.3.43.38]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue102) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0LrKBQ-1aHrj6373k-0138xb for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 15:39:48 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: <5da6a556-646f-42ba-9bae-f5bf4387f09e@googlegroups.com> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:5U/cQYCHmeyFL3te/YzyXz6vvaqVp+bzGki8UhlUNZhvmKg8BGM 80tzPOGOmSUnC0ETuFWuHcHy/1NBpGRdjQ0gMWGn2Mu1lgVQUL8Npr9hRYBO4z+p3vwyl/v 6CIuy9dN+XtwdEh/Ixi1Mxn750lKFKap/dceoCcip1egEX1uLn1kfeJ5yF3kAMlnR4BIfub hWcLY3v9CYSE+LfHD8YoQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:C0gSc2wFolY=:gCdQFT9j/iShkYTNSqLXpJ 3qzMIYAFARWTxFfKeJkhHqFIkz1UI407j18b8jRdsqIe2+XZ7lZ2IxLu7giuwLnZbGbCe9JSv 1pU3E+vlgJYZMmBJUWnP5nawUwcoTgQuIoimizh7CG45JW4U1/BnRrHY3jwT+aaTfSahPwaQm a3uV47XR/uTal+t2LzkMfPBY8DG1J387z0ou+pkBdOXu5E3Z34ANhuHHbUQ1lflFrpSui1m2K iBZ7UAcbvfj+UJP1Z+UHwrmJ/HsE9+raRJgd9Hw2KicJXYEDprrqGUWuUWifzKX+7zeqVkF02 gCA5LBTviPM2jrBXwKdZ+gZyrbdVTQBSWbu9xelof+nEX9fgu+cJwFGOeSsaLAwu8IMzNiO7A TtEcn17BmbuWrzZMQ6jRkMTk+vqWXQa9z04n7zdR79OA5Hh5b5W6/+yZoxGDppmx/e6ggWI+C M3MBh0/m0XFA2a3xwc73KTksnY0kg1k5g3txsaqKW0i4gHchzt2tbXmpKY/m62DWkJwAbcvME kB5gJK0NbyU7L4MwxN0mh/p0+IFzFD6BB1XWvRjJ+VrBoPbGhU0+CsbuDSOCsdUjp8I7dNS2n n6feIp1mjCI84Z0ZErhpBjESK2E4xjEvqQBPhCrlsuZOaFlYRZSL0gcngu7hGiEXSjJmaQfXQ So1J6KQQndU5uA5XthEAt39cd9WasckCBDmKUllk45/gQN0jljNdZk4zkWw5+8IrrknAht6q3 rlvvvZPujDdOANrC X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.24 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:108462 Archived-At: 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