emacs-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard


From: Corwin Brust
Subject: Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 23:47:49 -0600

On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 11:30 PM Po Lu <Luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> FTR, I didn't make any change to which selection is used by default, and Noah 
> is the only person who complained about the change that I did make.
>
> I was trying to discourage users from enabling `select-enable-primary', which 
> Lars disagreed with.  It was turned off by default in Emacs 21, where Emacs 
> switched to the now-standard behaviour by default.

I appreciate the clarification.
Thank you Po



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]