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RE: [h-e-w] Yank primary selection


From: Francis Wright
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Yank primary selection
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:22:44 -0000

> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On
> Behalf Of Eli Zaretskii
> Sent: 06 March 2011 1:07 pm
> To: Francis Wright
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Yank primary selection
> 
> > From: "Francis Wright" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 12:39:21 -0000
> >
> > > In Emacs 24, only keyboard keys, like C-w/M-w copy text into the
> > > clipboard, and only C-y paste it from the clipboard.
> >
> > May I ask why this change is being made in Emacs 24?
> 
> For consistency with the X behavior.  There was a long discussion thread
about
> this on emacs-devel a few months ago, look it up if you want the details.
> 
> > It seems like a step backwards and will stop me doing things I do a
> > lot.
> 
> I don't think you will be unable to do in Emacs 24 anything you do now,
but if you
> give specific examples of what you have in mind, I will test them in Emacs
24 and
> see if there are any problems. 

I often copy text to the clipboard in another application and then paste it
in Emacs using the mouse, or I copy text in Emacs using the mouse and then
paste it in another application. If I understood what you wrote above
correctly, I will not be able to do this with the mouse in Emacs 24.





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