From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: delete-selection-mode Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:15:47 -0700 Message-ID: <8858F0418A7541B58EA64831F110A2AE@us.oracle.com> References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com><201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu><87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org><20100317143519.GB4381@muc.de><87vdcui6oh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp><20100318101223.GB2704@muc.de> <87aau52a84.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268934602 10618 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2010 17:50:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:50:02 +0000 (UTC) To: "'David Kastrup'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 18 18:49:55 2010 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 1NsJr0-0003Ax-JD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:49:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsJr0-0000iU-0y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsJLw-0004Pv-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:17:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35681 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsJLv-0004No-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:17:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsJLs-0006XT-20 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:17:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet11.oracle.com ([148.87.113.123]:30502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsJLr-0006XO-T9; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:17:44 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o2IHHf2g007338 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:17:42 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o2I5iMME002257; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:17:40 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt021.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 92600671268932549; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:15:49 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:15:47 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87aau52a84.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Thread-Index: AcrGhhVfGaE2KGrPTFS4rx3pfU8coAAMOdow X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4BA26034.017B:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:122185 Archived-At: > For the record: I just noticed that a few minutes ago I yanked some > stuff from one buffer into a different buffer, then used C-x > C-x to move to the top of the inserted material in order to add a > newline and some other stuff there. > > delete-insertion-mode would have just deleted my inserted material > again. > > The sequence C-y C-x C-x is rather common in my usage patterns. And I > don't know an equally convenient substitute. C-y C-x C-x C-g or C-y C-u C-x C-x ^^^ ^^^ Honestly, each example you give of being disturbed by the active region, wanting it to be inactive, is in effect the *same example*. When you don't want the region to be active, either do not activate it or deactivate it. If you never want an active region, then turn off t-m-mode.