bug#16382: Cut/Copy tool-bar icons issue

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>]

Il 14/01/2014 17.07, Jan Djärv ha scritto:
> Hello.
>
> 14 jan 2014 kl. 10:03 skrev Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>:
>
>> Should we open a new bug report for this?
>>
>
> This report is fine.  The omission to copy to PRIMARY looks intended, because when text is read-only and cut acts like copy, text is copied to PRIMARY.

"intended" ? If it is intended, which is its usefulness?

If one wants to move text from a place to another, this doesn't work 
using the mouse and the "cut" icon on the tool-bar...

1. select the text with mouse-1 (dragging over the text)
2. click the "cut" icon on the tool-bar: the text is removed
3. now move the mouse pointer where you want the text to reappear
4. click mouse-2 to paste: nothing happens

So, newly, which the usefulness of the above "intended" omission?


> I wonder if there is some thought behind this we don't see.

ah..


Ciao,
Angelo.

>>
>> Il 12/01/2014 19.03, Jan Djärv ha scritto:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> Copy does save in PRIMARY, but cut does not for some reason.
>>>
>>>      Jan D.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-01-12 12:26, Angelo Graziosi skrev:
>>>> Il 09/01/2014 3.00, Stefan Monnier ha scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've installed a patch which calls force-mode-line-update when the mark
>>>>> is (de)activated.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm... it seems there are still problems, mainly with "cut" icon...
>>>>
>>>> With a recent trunk build (GTK build on Cygwin, two days ago), I see
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>> $ emacs -Q &
>>>>
>>>> 1. Now with the mouse I select the word "create" on second row of scratch
>>>> buffer. The "cut" and "copy" icons in tool-bar are active.
>>>>
>>>> 2. I click the "cut" icon and the word "create" is removed and the
>>>> "cut" and
>>>> "copy" icons are grayed (disabled).
>>>>
>>>> 3. Then I move the mouse pointer on the letter "b" of the word
>>>> "buffer" on
>>>> third row and...
>>>>
>>>> 4. ...I click the mouse-2 (wheel) to paste.. but it doesn't work, only
>>>> the
>>>> cursor is moved over the "b".
>>>>
>>>> The same happens if in step 3., after moving the mouse pointer, I
>>>> click with
>>>> mouse-1 to move the cursor over the "b" before step 4.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If I repeat all the above steps changing the "cut" icon with "copy"
>>>> icon, all
>>>> works as expected.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ciao,
>>>>   Angelo.
>>>
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