From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre Oberlin" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:42:52 +0100 Organization: http://migo.info 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; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452707463 11853 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2016 17:51:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:51:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 13 18:51:02 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 1aJPZS-0005ck-As for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 18:50:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38633 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJPZM-0000in-PT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:50:52 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!news.redatomik.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-b.proxad.net!nnrp4-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jan 2016 17:42:49 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.44.174.187 Original-X-Trace: 1452703369 news-4.free.fr 3325 151.44.174.187:40083 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216422 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:50:31 -0500 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:108715 Archived-At: On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 05:09:23 +0100, Yuri Khan = wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Alexandre Oberlin = > 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=E2=80=93like 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.