Re: Selection changes in revno 100822

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:19:09 +0200
> From: Jan Djärv <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-08-15 08.01:
> 
> > Apparently, the GUI recommendations on X are now that the primary
> > selection is used only in conjunction with the mouse,  ...
> 
> 
> Actually it is
> "selecting but with no explicit copy should only set PRIMARY,
>   never CLIPBOARD"
> 
> How text is selected (mouse or keyboard) isn't mentioned.

You are right, of course, but I didn't mean to imply anything
different.  What I meant by "in conjunction with the mouse" refers
only to the action that copies or pastes the text, I did not mean the
selection process itself.

I must say that once mouse-2 is no longer a synonym to "yank" it
became a tad harder to explain what one means.  Is there a widely
accepted term for what mouse-2 does in this context?  The spec
everybody seem to quote still calls this "paste", so if there's no
better term, we will have to get used to saying "paste from PRIMARY",
"paste from CLIPBOARD", etc.  And, of course, there's the
Emacs-specific gripe that only one of them is no a synonym to "yank".