Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard

[Stefan Monnier]

> The behaviour in question was never guaranteed.  Indeed, Emacs has
> already seen many changes in this area to better comply with the
> established understanding of which X11 selection to use as the
> "clipboard".

FWIW, every one of those changes has generated friction, so it's not
like we should feel free to change it any way we like.

I don't understand the issue at hand well enough to have an opinion on
whether the change is on the right side of the tradeoff, but there is
clearly a tradeoff.


        Stefan