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

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: no-spam <at> cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: 5765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, "Kim F. Storm" <storm <at> cua.dk>
Subject: bug#5765: Strange things happens with C-v in read-file-name
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:42:31 -0400

no-spam <at> cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

>> Nothing happened to this so I am sending this again. Could this please
>> be fixed before the release?
>>
>> Kim, could you perhaps comment on this? Could the line
>>
>>    (setq cua-inhibit-cua-keys t)
>>
>> be removed?
>
> IIRC, the reason for this was the following binding in ido file mode:
>
>     (define-key map "\C-v" 'ido-toggle-vc)
>
> If cua-mode is enabled, C-v is processed by cua (as paste), shadowing the
> above command.
>
> I guess nobody really uses that specific feature of ido.
> I used to use it a lot back when I wrote ido, but never uses it these days.
>
> So the best thing to do would be to remove the above binding - then you
> can also remove the setting of cua-inhibit-cua-keys.

Done.

(In the trunk, not in the branch; this is not serious enough to make an
exception to the regressions-only policy).

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