Re: Provide Scheme sandbox. (issue 5453045)

[David Kastrup]

Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:

> 2011/12/8  <address@hidden>:
>> What you don't understand is that Emacs is no longer scanning your
>> weaknesses of understanding and kneeing you in the gut whenever you do
>> something as careless as typing a backspace.
>
> Copying/pasting from/to other programs in/from Emacs still appear in
> my scan. I never know when it will work and when it will not.  Only
> center-click usually works.

Center click copies the active selection.  To copy the active selection
into the clip board, try the explicit act of M-w in Emacs.  The mouse
highlighting (and selection) disappears, but now the paste button in the
other application works.  And vice versa.  X _has_ separate mechanisms
for a highlighted selection and the clipboard.  Other applications work
similarly.

They usually make things easier by intermingling those two things.
Emacs doesn't.  One reason is that a common workflow is killing a region
in one buffer (C-w) and pasting it in another one (C-y).  If another X
application, like a browser coming up with a page with a highlighted
entry, steals the selection in between, you don't really want to have
Emacs overwrite its last kill with it.

You can customize Emacs to mix those behaviors as well, but if you
develop habitual workflows where this mix is useful, chances are that
you will lose information unintendedly at one time.

With a web browser, the source of information usually is not touched.
With an editor, it is.

-- 
David Kastrup