From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Utcke Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with editing files (emacs for SUSE Linux) Date: 03 Sep 2002 14:14:53 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031055876 29153 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 12:24:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mCjR-0007a6-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 14:24:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mCkw-0002Xm-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 08:26:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: kogs31.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Original-X-Trace: rzsun03.rrz.uni-hamburg.de 1031055294 19616 134.100.12.153 (3 Sep 2002 12:14:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-hamburg.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Sep 2002 12:14:54 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104420 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:985 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:985 Michael Wolf 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 -- _ __ The Cognitive Systems Group | |/ /___ __ _ ___ University of Hamburg | '