From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:22:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86fy4dzdzd.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182961369 28846 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2007 16:22:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:22:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 27 18:22:48 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 1I3aI2-0006l4-7t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:22:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I3aI1-0002je-BZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I3aHy-0002jZ-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I3aHw-0002jN-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I3aHw-0002jK-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I3aHv-00056g-3v; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1EF12177D; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:22:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: On the other hand, life can be an endless parade of TRANSSEXUAL QUILTING BEES aboard a cruise ship to DISNEYWORLD if only we let it!! In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Wed\, 27 Jun 2007 16\:25\:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:73927 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > 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? Please read the history. This feature has been added 15 years ago. >> 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? Would you also forbid enabling auto-fill-mode or abbrev-mode in a read-only buffer? Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."