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- From: wohler@sap-ag.DE (Bill Wohler)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
- Subject: Re: quoted-insert inserts in overwrite-mode
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:26:41 -0500
- Organization: SAP AG Walldorf, Germany
- Lines: 19
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Message-ID: <9301221446.AA27834@sap-ag.de>
- References: <9301190456.AA02043@csd.bu.edu>
- Reply-To: Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>
-
- > jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:
- > >In article <9301192038.AA15952@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:
- > >> This is a feature because it was designed intentionally.
- > >> I can affirm this because I did it.
- > >I understood this already. It is still a bug. The fact that the bug
- > >first occurred in the design rather than in the implementation does not
- > >change things.
-
- joe, i think the design came about because quoted-insert can insert
- 1, 2 or more characters. if quoted-insert overwrote, then if i had
- the word "hunchen" and i wanted to replace the 'u' with an
- "u-umlaut", the result would be "h\207en", NOT what i would want.
-
- perhaps an alternative design would be for quoted-insert in
- overwrite mode to overwrite only one character and insert the rest
- (ie "hunchen" -> "h\207nchen"). richard?
-
- --bw
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