From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 01:28:47 +0100 Message-ID: <87oad3wlog.fsf@web.de> References: <5da6a556-646f-42ba-9bae-f5bf4387f09e@googlegroups.com> <84da4496-944e-4192-ac09-b5bfc0992f3f@googlegroups.com> <70837df3-23f5-416b-8e0a-b9f105f7a40c@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451780960 15614 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2016 00:29:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 00:29:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 03 01:29:10 2016 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 1aFWXm-0007vf-MW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 01:29:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40153 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFWXm-0004dy-1W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:29:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43089) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFWXb-0004di-Kw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:29:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFWXY-0006D8-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:28:59 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56718) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFWXY-0006D4-5g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:28:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aFWXW-0007ft-Mx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 01:28:54 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-1-98.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.1.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 01:28:54 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-1-98.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 01:28:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-1-98.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nwkZlSY0Ogp7R39Obuq4SoGT6+U= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:108584 Archived-At: Alexandre Oberlin writes: > However, I must repeat that the problem is not really here, since the > program often functions correctly with the above settings. All I can > conclude by now is that all users of Emacs today must be aware of an > unpublished list of no-nos which allow the program to function > erratically. No, they must just read the docs before using something. As the thing has more features and is more complicated than other tools, there is also more documentation. > I am sure you will gain loads of Windows users with that kind of > philosophy. Nobody is forced to use Emacs. If you dislike it's philosophy, use something different you like more. Many people like Emacs because of its philosophy. Michael.