From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kaushal Modi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:05:15 -0500 Message-ID: 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; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452791171 11530 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2016 17:06:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:06:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Alexandre Oberlin Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 14 18:06:11 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 1aJlLd-0007XU-NW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:06:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43901 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJlLd-0001hr-1N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:06:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49131) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJlLR-0001hl-Ej for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:05:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJlLQ-0006lb-Cn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:05:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-oi0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::234]:35491) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJlLQ-0006lB-6S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:05:56 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-oi0-x234.google.com with SMTP id p187so101173563oia.2 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:05:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=8nA4OOJ6JLO08ZpUvc9Yidcpc25iG9mA0/qGaBcrxo4=; b=wV01KDb+SEJGx8TD2+ovei6MltFvJ+BbyCwKhOLtXXd5smX2HvrPu2Qz2VFa+Rf7/v fTpvQxeMZwAdko2EVY5WZKr1o8dyj0LWIkpbp8JSr6vMCRO3IUoWwhyQT3sKrQf8N2z6 MYvCJ7hXays9XdZl+dHIEHbZH6MIxF9NE5ydKcJsB7LVlwJdDFxSiHHLrgeAEai3bw1s dXiSViOK5i1bQ3YaVf8EUs5zq3eqtUiVpO43x8Fc3pVm3RbjgOc7xy2Cl1ss6l1t68G/ 18PRO/B7gOjgrJKJqu//L332/nIkSa1FuaTgGnnYjmKd7xwQcXnlNWlXEI7vT+wGjQ32 6XZw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=8nA4OOJ6JLO08ZpUvc9Yidcpc25iG9mA0/qGaBcrxo4=; b=ALWZ77aqW8QVnzywU0Pz8POpFWsfITGtswVXRTkMjAPGxx1LGzkDpiZXzTYZflK70j JbnRnzKhTDZF9Pu4ORywFLmJRdTrY+4WdbZcOkkQO1tpi8zrqlynoYqO7Y4fWyTObTMM OBHzQ6G8XJTQdf/RAbDT9t8pXxhMVi5WI3biEURaIpzZedTg79krMiWha4BV+V7RZPX6 5te5cRgBM2lRrVa6ROmOGreRDz3B0cL3hQ/En7957PY9aUMwMa7p8EuxycMJjVPCfH0G 8FaJFe6Nq9bWxDMpX0h1PRBJl/qhdfpNB1iffPYinqDvzzW199mJrWYxgp2XOl1ToSTc MsiA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkRDKGM0OcowMy0qyb47UVbEj0F66PG6XPoTzY91tyY2sQWmu6clbuUj5d2PnFu7NTre/I/eRkzK0zr69T6g+jAZnB6/A== X-Received: by 10.202.52.8 with SMTP id b8mr3316312oia.23.1452791155580; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:05:55 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.202.201.78 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:05:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c06::234 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 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:108738 Archived-At: > When I say "invisible region", I mean that it appears just like normal text. Exactly, that's what I demonstrated in that screen shot. When the color resolution is very low, the selected region, the "sample", looks unselected, like rest of the text in the buffer. > Face: region (sample) (customize this face) I just wanted to know if the "sample" text in the above line looked distinguished, with a different background than the rest. I see that the Background value is blue3 (but I don't know what your default background value is). Pasting that text here would not justify that. So I linked to the screenshot images I took. If you do see that "sample" text with a different background, which more likely is, as you mentioned, > If I explicitly define a region with e.g. SHIFT+arrow key, it is always perfectly visible. , then we can throw out this reason for invisibility out of consideration. So it boils down to filing an emacs bug report as others mentioned, with a definitive recipe of how to recreate this problem in an emacs -Q session. FWIW, I have never this issue. I always have transient-mark-mode and delete-selection-mode enabled. In my emacs version (latest build from emacs-25 branch), transient-mark-mode is on by default and I have customized the delete-selection-mode to be t (default was nil).