From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Delete Selection mode Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:05:11 -0400 Message-ID: <87eii7mex4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271967235 9131 80.91.229.12 (22 Apr 2010 20:13:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:13:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 22 22:13:53 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O52mQ-0007oO-LY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:13:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O52mQ-00060L-1N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O52eD-0004go-A8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60820 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O52eB-0004eV-Tp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O52eA-0005fp-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po34.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.80]:60653) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O52e8-0005fR-MJ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014104.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.104]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po34.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o3MK5Bid009149 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 71F9AC055; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:05:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:44:40 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.96 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:124078 Archived-At: Richard Stallman 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?