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Strange things happens with C-v in read-file-name

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 5765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#5765: Strange things happens with C-v in read-file-name
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:17:49 +0100

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Please bisect your customizations to find the minimally reproducible
>>> test case.
>>
>> I have not been able to do that. However I know that I get the same
>> problem with for example
>>
>>   M-: (completing-read "my prompt: " '("a" "b"))
>>
>> I can't find any involved variable that looks suspect. Could you maybe
>> come up with something to check?
>
> If this is so simple to reproduce with customizations, I don't see why
> it should be so difficult to bisect the customizations and find the
> problem.  It's far easier than asking others to deduce the bug from
> first principles.


Of course I have tried that, but I could not find the problem. I
needed to do certain things after to make it happens.

Now I think I have found the problem. In ido-minibuffer-setup (in
ido.el) there is a line

    (setq cua-inhibit-cua-keys t)

I have had that commented out for long in my patched version of Emacs,
but forgot to tell about it. Some merging breaked this.

I see no reason why it should be there. Could it please be removed (or
commented out) if no one else sees a reason for it? (Then we have to
find another way to solve this bug.)

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