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Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:22:31 +0200 |
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"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:
> On 6/27/07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The purpose of not having `*' presumably is to have them affect the
>> kill-ring. In order to provide similar behavior upon multiple kills
>> as in a non-readonly-buffer, it appears reasonable to move across the
>> (non-happening) kill.
>
> I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that people routinely does kill
> operations on a read-only buffer in order to copy text to the kill
> ring?
Please read the history. This feature has been added 15 years ago.
>> Uh what? Switching to overwrite-mode/binary-overwrite-mode does not
>> change the buffer, does it?
>
> No. But it seems like an error to *interactively* change to
> overwrite-mode in a read-only buffer, doesn't it?
Would you also forbid enabling auto-fill-mode or abbrev-mode in a
read-only buffer?
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28