From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Delete Selection mode
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:05:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eii7mex4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1O52KG-0006wt-5C@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:44:40 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I thought I was trying Delete Selection mode, but I had turned it on
> with (setq delete-selection-mode t). A few days ago I discovered that
> was a no-op. So I started trying it for real.
>
> It has caused me annoying surprises every day, including
> just now finding that M-w C-y did not duplicate the region
> as I expected it to. (Instead it was a no-op.)
This doesn't sound right. M-w C-y should not be affected by Delete
Selection mode. With `emacs -Q', I did
M-x delete-selection-mode RET
C-SPC
M-< [to put the *scratch* message in the region]
M-w
C-y
This gives me two copies of the *scratch* message. Do you not see this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-22 19:44 Delete Selection mode Richard Stallman
2010-04-22 20:05 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-04-23 16:49 ` Richard Stallman
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