Re: Replacing huge hidden selection when pasting text

[Alexandre Oberlin]

On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 06:08:59 +0100, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>  
wrote:

> A) I think his point is that the user is frustrated and so goes for
> whatever knobs look shiny rather than making a reasoned decision
> about what options are most suited to their needs.
Talk as you feel.

> B) Transient
> mark mode, AIUI, doesn't actually affect users who don't explicitly
> set the mark in any noticeable way.
I do set the mark. I use regions/selections, mind you.
BTW, I enabled transient-mark-mode right now in order to test Yuri’s  
suggestion for emulating notepad, and I noticed that non highlighted  
regions get deleted with CTRL+W as well if transient-mark-mode is on.

> C) IMO delete-selection-mode should never cause text in a non-active
> region to be deleted.
Again, it does. It does with paste, and maybe even more consistently with  
kill-region (also with transient-mark-mode on, see above).

> And I can't reproduce the behavior (not that
> I seriously expected to, given that it's apparently intermittent.)
> I do have a question for Alexandre, though... has this ever happened
> with typed text, or only pasting/yanking?
I have no remembrance of this happening on an invisible region by typing,  
even typing the delete key. It only happens with kill-region or paste.