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Re: Selection changes in revno 100822
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Selection changes in revno 100822 |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:04:10 +0900 |
Miles Bader writes:
> If you _see_ a selected region in Emacs (no matter how it was
> selected), it's available as the primary for pasting in other
> apps.
But that is normally *not true* in Windows, without C-c or C-x (or the
menu equivalents) first. The traditional Windows interface for
pasting the primary is drag and drop, not C-v. C-v will replace the
primary without saving it, with the current content of the clipboard.
See my reply to Eli for more detail on why this is so.
If you want X11 and Windows (and Mac, for that matter) to have similar
interfaces here, then you could disable middle-click-to-paste (by
default) on X11, and use "drag to paste" consistently. For
consistency with Mac and Windows behavior, almost surely drag to paste
within a buffer should *move* the content, while drag to paste to a
different app should certainly *copy* the content. Drag to paste
between Emacs buffers I'm not sure about, but I suspect that should
mostly copy. (Dragging between Dired buffers probably ought to *move*
the file, OTOH.)
Of course wizened (or seasoned) X users probably would want to
reenable middle click to paste.
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, (continued)
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David Kastrup, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/16
- RE: Selection changes in revno 100822, Drew Adams, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Miles Bader, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/15
- RE: Selection changes in revno 100822, Drew Adams, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15