From: Sven Utcke <utcke+news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Re: Problem with editing files (emacs for SUSE Linux)
Date: 03 Sep 2002 14:14:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vd0heh7i81u.fsf@kogs31.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1031052244.507.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Michael Wolf <michael.wolf@econ.upf.es> writes:
> What happens is the following: when I edit a file (whether it is a text
> file, a Latex file, a C++ file, etc.) all of sudden unwanted changes
> appear in my file. Basically, a part of text that I had deleted
> somewhere else earlier on (and at times even text that I had deleted
> outside of emacs) will appear out of nowhere all over my file. Say, it
> might appear in 5 to 10 different locations!
Sounds as if you are inadvertendly pressing the middle mouse button
(or C-y). One obious way how this could happen is that you recently
switched to a wheel-mouse and didn't realise that the weel doubles as
the middle mouse button...
> If you have any pointers, please reply to me directly, since I am not
> subscribed to the group. My e-mail address is: michael.wolf@econ.upf.es
Do you mean: please give me free help with my problem, but please
reply to me directly as I can not be bothered to wade through all the
uninteresting stuff you might write on other subjects? You write
here, you read here...
Sven
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2002-09-03 11:23 Problem with editing files (emacs for SUSE Linux) Michael Wolf
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