Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

Hi all,

On 2016-01-02, at 22:40, Alexandre Oberlin <alxobr@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Pascal,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 2:19:10 AM UTC+1, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> Again, this is clearly explained by customizations you've done, not by
>> the behavior of emacs which is perfectly safe.  You can test it
>> yourself: 
> I guess that by "the behavior of emacs" you mean "the behavior of emacs -q"

That's obvious.  But (from my experience with Emacs) also "the behavior
of Emacs with (at least one) reasonable configuration".

> [...]
>
>> But try to put yourself in the shoes of programmers who want to be able
>> to modify their program to their taste and needs!  We need to have
>> programming documentation of each function in that software to be able
>> to use them in your modifications and additions!
> Having an exhaustive documentation of each function is great. Inconsiderately overloading basic user functions not that much.

Out of curiosity: what exactly do you mean by "overloading basic user
functions"?

> There is absolutely nothing special in the configuration I currently use. I just had to disable transient-mode because highlighting almost the whole buffer during isearch as well as extending (and highlighting) the region without pressing SHIFT is not my cup of tea.

Highlighting during isearch?  It's not what Emacs does for me, and
I have transient-mark-mode on all the time.

> Cheers,

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University