From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:25:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86fy4dzdzd.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182954452 30724 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2007 14:27:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:27:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: "David Kastrup" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 27 16:27:31 2007 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 4.50) id 1I3YTZ-0005Qp-Kt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:27:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I3YT3-0007pX-Oz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:26:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I3YT0-0007oz-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:25:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I3YSu-0007nv-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:25:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I3YSu-0007ns-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.234]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I3YSs-0004Yg-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:25:51 -0400 Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 55so125265wri for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:25:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dZ3MTJFIw5hRPZ6EsMh4yYc6TNs4HAqCZHp+dtmEIC3Dg5gGKi95uUE0m7bM/YbOdYfv00RIwkmx9e3G13mpZhj5CLCDGbjFII6W2Fx2xbfYxZUwrB3UMcUeYeNuhvUgbn1XbaNI/us1nEp7DLJS1vHbtxH33boG/9QLSwPg2Rc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VbbVKIxIYFtfg6mG42ItjW7oAAF8IN7e5cpr7/o3mBZWl9WoIS5zY0oOMuDi7KIVPbXVlSCW6Ygh5aYbbamNQzjr/RmwRVrPrKCfm+HLE89pR2CwzbgwRMqjsrfRCWgQsQH0XZE5O2VIEvsDoTTqJxKTGH7HVZuW6i6oOgCYyyg= Original-Received: by 10.90.35.15 with SMTP id i15mr501023agi.1182954323735; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.87.8 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:25:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86fy4dzdzd.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:73922 Archived-At: On 6/27/07, David Kastrup wrote: > The purpose of not having `*' presumably is to have them affect the > kill-ring. In order to provide similar behavior upon multiple kills > as in a non-readonly-buffer, it appears reasonable to move across the > (non-happening) kill. I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that people routinely does kill operations on a read-only buffer in order to copy text to the kill ring? > Uh what? Switching to overwrite-mode/binary-overwrite-mode does not > change the buffer, does it? No. But it seems like an error to *interactively* change to overwrite-mode in a read-only buffer, doesn't it? Juanma