Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard

[Po Lu]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> Because, typically, Emacs does not keep a local ring for text stored
>> into the primary selection.  `select-enable-primary' is a violation of
>> the XDG clipboard spec, and is unlikely to be used by many people, so I
>> didn't enable that code there.

> Enabling `select-enable-primary' is a common recommendation, so my guess
> is that a lot of people have it enabled.  (I have it enabled myself.)

Doesn't that result in Emacs interfering with the primary selection of
other problems?  And also other programs refusing to paste text killed
by Emacs?

Thanks.