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Re: crash-proof emacs use


From: Yuri Khan
Subject: Re: crash-proof emacs use
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 13:32:47 +0700

On Mon, 12 Sept 2022 at 09:13, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:

> this is open-ended, but would mean something like, you kill some text
> with a "about to move" command so that killing is not conflated with
> moving, and it gets marked as "move operation started".  then you go
> to the location to yank to, and you [if your stm is operating ok] yank
> in the new place with a message that this is supposed to be
> crash-proof.  as part of that yanking, the old text gets deleted.
> this is just a silly example.

Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets do this. (LibreOffice Calc, for some
reason, doesn’t — deletes on cut immediately.) Various file managers,
too.



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