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24.3.50; delete selection mode not killing on overwrite

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From: Tony Day <tonyday567 <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 13312 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13312: 24.3.50; delete selection mode not killing on overwrite
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 11:06:04 +1100

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On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Why did you expect `delete-selection-mode' to kill rather than delete?


I asked on stack exchange for how to change the behaviour and someone
suggested it was a bug.  I figured delete-selection-mode was less of a
mouthful than maybe-delete-or-kill-selection-mode ;)

The critical code lines were was also ambiguous and beyond my powers of
comprehension:

(put 'self-insert-command 'delete-selection
     (lambda ()
       (not (run-hook-with-args-until-success
             'self-insert-uses-region-functions))))

Thanks for confirming the default behaviour.  On changing to kill rather
than delete with:

(put 'self-insert-command 'delete-selection 'kill)

I get no self-inserted key, and an extra blank item in the kill ring.

Regardless, why don't we call this a hack and not a bug.

Tony

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