From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 6956@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6956: 24.0.50; pasting mouse selection in other session pastes only first word
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:38:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838w3ljzq0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eideejlh.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 6956@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:13:30 -0400
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Select some text (several words) with the mouse using double-click
> >> mouse-1 on one word then mouse-3 on a later word in the text.
> >
> > Does this constitute a "mouse drag"? Can someone please tell what
> > happens on X with the recipe in this bug report?
>
> Yes, this follows the rule that if the region is highlighted, the
> primary selection is set. On X, if you double-mouse-1 on a word and
> extend the region with mouse-3, you can use mouse-2 to paste the entire
> selection into another application.
The issue here is that mouse-drag-copy-region is advertised to copy to
the kill-ring regions which are highlighted by dragging the mouse.
But mouse-drag-copy-region only affects mouse-drag-region (via
mouse-drag-track), which is bound to mouse-1. Mouse-3, OTOH, is bound
to mouse-save-then-kill, which is not affected at all by
mouse-drag-copy-region.
So when Drew double-clicks mouse-1, the highlighted first word is
indeed copied into the kill ring (and winds up in the clipboard), but
extending the region with mouse-3 doesn't copy the extended region.
What I think happens on X under mouse-drag-copy-region is that the
first word is copied into the clipboard, while the extended region is
copied to the PRIMARY selection by the code in command_loop_1 which
catches active regions. Can you please verify this?
If my guess is correct, then I think this is a bug: we should copy the
whole region to the kill-ring when mouse-drag-copy-region is non-nil.
That is, if extending the region with mouse-3 as described in this
report indeed constitutes a "mouse drag".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-01 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-31 16:48 bug#6956: 24.0.50; pasting mouse selection in other session pastes only first word Drew Adams
2010-08-31 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-31 18:13 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-01 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-09-04 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04 8:35 ` Jan Djärv
2010-09-04 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-04 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04 15:15 ` Jan Djärv
2010-09-04 19:09 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-04 20:35 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-04 21:38 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-05 1:53 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-05 5:33 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-05 14:36 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-05 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-05 4:48 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-05 5:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04 17:06 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-31 18:16 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-16 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-16 23:51 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-17 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <3BE2421F73AD4292AE8375CA3328663D@us.oracle.com>
2010-09-17 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-17 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-17 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 18:47 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 20:19 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 20:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 21:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-21 4:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-21 14:20 ` Drew Adams
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