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: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:01:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5da6a556-646f-42ba-9bae-f5bf4387f09e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450919119 29437 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2015 01:05:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:05:19 +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 02:05:19 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 1aBuLG-0000iO-WF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 02:05:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBuLG-0006ii-7K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:05:18 -0500 X-Received: by 10.182.81.72 with SMTP id y8mr9102573obx.9.1450918900901; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:01:40 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.142.42 with SMTP id rt10mr116394igb.0.1450918900831; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:01:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!mv3no20363871igc.0!news-out.google.com!f6ni31932igq.0!nntp.google.com!mv3no20363869igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=151.37.28.47; posting-account=IWjTFQoAAAAFS3md63aQJ_ttNKJFTj1L Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.37.28.47 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:01:40 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216166 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:108456 Archived-At: I have stopped hoping that the current maintainers of Emacs still have an o= unce of common sense. How on Earth can it be possible (and quite easy) to a= llow replacing a huge hidden selection when pasting text without any warnin= g ? 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 select= ion in all versions of Emacs?=20