Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard

[Corwin Brust]

On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 10:46 PM Po Lu <Luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Our tail is not strong enough to wag the dog
> that is the X window system. Other programs
> have decided to follow the standardized behavior,
> and the only result of us not following suit is that
> we will no longer be able to run on the same X server
> as any other modern client without causing problems.

FWIW, I don't think we are attempting to "wag the dog" here, in terms
of influencing the X foundation, so much as to prevent changes in the
behavior of Emacs that the users (at least, all who have chimed in
here excluding you who made this change and presumably like it)
prefer.