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bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working? |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:29:59 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> There's no analogue to the Emacs's ordinary (C-SPC) active regions in
>>> other programs, and it's not even clear to me that it's good to set the
>>> primary selection under most circumstances. The original point of
>>> transient mark mode is to let you mark out a stretch of text to to
>>> operate on (e.g. comment, or search, or undo), and I don't know if it's
>>> really correct for us to set the primary selection at the same time.
>>
>> Indeed, I don't think it's good to do so. The old behavior of setting
>> PRIMARY only when killing the text seems like the right behavior.
>> Why would we want to change that?
> Because it would conflict with
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt, and
> most other X applications set PRIMARY without an explicit kill or copy.
That doesn't mean that C-SPC C-f should set PRIMARY. It just means that
some other operations should be considered as forms of copy/kill.
> And because it is convinient to be able to select text and then paste
> with middle button in another application.
Indeed, and Emacs-23 does that fine by saying that mouse-selection
performs a `copy'.
Stefan
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, (continued)
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/06
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Chong Yidong, 2010/08/06
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/06
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Chong Yidong, 2010/08/08
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/08
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Chong Yidong, 2010/08/08
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/08/09
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/09
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?,
Stefan Monnier <=
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/10
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/08/10
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/10
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/08/11
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/11
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/08/11
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/11
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/08/11
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Kenichi Handa, 2010/08/12
- bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/12