From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:37:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <5da6a556-646f-42ba-9bae-f5bf4387f09e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450921099 23678 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2015 01:38:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:38:19 +0000 (UTC) To: Alexandre Oberlin , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 24 02:38:07 2015 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 1aBur0-0003sX-C8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 02:38:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBuqz-0004Mo-Pm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:38:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43809) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBuqp-0004MP-Hi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:37:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBuqm-0002q8-CA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:37:55 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:27913) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBuqm-0002pk-6X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:37:52 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id tBO1boce012264 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:37:51 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBO1boNT016400 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:37:50 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0014.oracle.com (abhmp0014.oracle.com [141.146.116.20]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBO1boIT009092; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:37:50 GMT In-Reply-To: <5da6a556-646f-42ba-9bae-f5bf4387f09e@googlegroups.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:108457 Archived-At: > I have stopped hoping that the current maintainers of Emacs still have an > ounce of common sense. How on Earth can it be possible (and quite easy) t= o > allow replacing a huge hidden selection when pasting text without any > warning ? I have lost large amounts of data with this incredibly stupid > behavior. There isn't even a warning when saving a file which has shrunk = a > lot, like there once was. How can I DEFINITELY avoid overwriting an > invisible selection in all versions of Emacs? I can tell you are upset, and I would be too, no doubt. But if you can describe what you did in more detail it would help. At the very least it might help others avoid the same gotcha that apparently bit you. This is a user help list, and most people reading it and contributing to it are users, like you. If you can provide a step-by-step recipe to describe what you did and what happened, that can also serve as a bug report or enhancement request, which you can post using `M-x report-emacs-bug'. HTH.