From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <rms@gnu.org>, <6073@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#6073: 23.1.50; delete-selection-mode
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 13:07:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AB070619FCE049199248699DC61245D3@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1O8Haa-0002aL-3Z@fencepost.gnu.org>
> I found a reproducible test case for the painful result I mentioned
> before with C-u C-y in Delete Selection mode.
>
> This Emacs is somewhat old; I have not built a newer one.
> I will try to do so soon.
>
> I visit the text between the ---- lines (not including them)
> in Fundamental mode, do M-x delete-selection-mode RET to enable it,
> then I go to the blank line after the first paragraph and type
> C-SPC C-u C-n M-w C-x C-x C-u C-y
> and the text does not change. Apparently C-u C-y deletes
> the region before yanking.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> * ACTA must respect sharing and cooperation: it must do nothing that
> would hinder the unremunerated noncommercial making, copying,
> giving, lending, owning, using, transporting, importing or exporting
> of any objects or works.
>
> * ACTA must not weasel about what is commercial: no labeling of any
> noncommercial activities as somehow commercial-like or treating them
> as if they were commercial.
>
> * ACTA must not tighten digital handcuffs: it must not hinder any
> activity in regard to any product on account of its capacity to
> circumvent technical measures that restrict use of copies of works
> of authorship.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
You probably already know this, but in case you do not: C-x C-x activates the
region. Since it is active, your yank replaces the region text.
If you do C-g after C-x C-x I think you will get the behavior you expected.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-01 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-01 18:38 bug#6073: 23.1.50; delete-selection-mode Richard Stallman
2010-05-01 20:07 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-05-02 0:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-02 18:46 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-21 19:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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