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From: "Alexandre Oberlin" <email_via@migo.info>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:42:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.ya6rdru9dhe6zj@tournesol> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1570.1451794187.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 05:09:23 +0100, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Alexandre Oberlin <alxobr@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Enabling delete-selection-mode and disabling transient-mark-mode is  
>> nothing more than what an average user unsatisfied with the default  
>> behavior would try at first in order to get a "Windows notepad" like  
>> behavior regarding selection and overwriting.
>
> No. A Windows Notepad–like behavior is what you get with
> transient-mark-mode, shift-select-mode, delete-selection-mode and
> cua-mode all enabled.
Sooo simple to emulate the sophisticated notepad ??
Actually your statement is not true (at least in GNU Emacs 24.5.1)
If I set the mark with all that you mention enabled, then the region is  
extended and highlighted when pressing the arrow keys without SHIFT, as  
well as while isearching. This is exactly what I want to avoid and it  
never happen in notepad.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-13 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-24  1:01 Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text Alexandre Oberlin
2015-12-24  1:37 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-24 13:27   ` Alexandre Oberlin
2015-12-24 23:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-25  1:18     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
     [not found]     ` <mailman.529.1451006347.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-02 21:40       ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-02 22:03         ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1550.1451772215.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-02 22:28           ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-02 23:04             ` Drew Adams
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1551.1451775915.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-03  0:11               ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-03  0:28                 ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.1554.1451780942.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-03  0:41                   ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-03  1:07                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-03  2:10                     ` Robert Thorpe
2016-01-03  2:11                 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03  2:25                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-03  3:10                   ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03  3:21                     ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03  4:09                 ` Yuri Khan
2016-01-03  5:08                   ` Random832
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.1572.1451797753.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-13 17:13                     ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-14 14:07                       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.2334.1452780465.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-14 15:35                         ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-14 16:11                           ` Kaushal Modi
2016-01-14 17:20                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-14 16:36                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-14 16:41                           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.2341.1452787916.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-14 16:45                             ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-14 17:05                               ` Kaushal Modi
2016-01-14 19:37                           ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.2359.1452800411.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-14 23:41                             ` Alexandre Oberlin
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.1570.1451794187.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-13 16:42                   ` Alexandre Oberlin [this message]
2016-01-13 17:54                     ` Yuri Khan
     [not found]                     ` <mailman.2302.1452707668.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-14 13:57                       ` Alexandre Oberlin
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.1564.1451787927.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-13 17:26                   ` Alexandre Oberlin
     [not found]     ` <mailman.528.1450998293.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-14 14:00       ` Alexandre Oberlin
2016-01-14 15:02         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-24  5:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-12-24 14:40 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-12-27 22:15 ` Robert Thorpe

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