From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Pablo Mercader Alcántara" <programingfrik@gmail.com>
Cc: 21196-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21196: 24.5; Paste from clipboard to emacs -nw on windows 8.1
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 09:34:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a8u3sj3b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPQ4eMJDzvuTtcFsadUhL+567Bc2JOaFku5AUTNmnor7BijoaQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 19:03:01 -0400
> From: Pablo Mercader Alcántara <programingfrik@gmail.com>
>
> > Maybe you mean Emacs 23, where indeed the test for the GUI frame
> > was absent. But that was an omission, which is now fixed.
>
> And why do we want to remove that thing that I say is a "feature" but it looks
> like it was treated like a "bug".
For consistency across platforms, I guess.
> I think that this feature/bug thing is working backwards. Isn't it desireble
> to use X's clipboard on an xterm emacs session? so insted of taking the
> functionality from the windows version, why don't we implement it on the
> *nix version :D.
It's not always possible to do on Unix what Emacs 23 and before did on
Windows. On Unix you can build Emacs without any X support
whatsoever, something that is not supported on Windows. In that case,
X functions are not available.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-07 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-06 0:06 bug#21196: 24.5; Paste from clipboard to emacs -nw on windows 8.1 Pablo Mercader Alcántara
2015-08-06 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CAPQ4eMJDzvuTtcFsadUhL+567Bc2JOaFku5AUTNmnor7BijoaQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-06 23:06 ` bug#21196: Fwd: " Pablo Mercader Alcántara
2015-08-07 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-08-07 13:01 ` Pablo Mercader Alcántara
2015-09-04 15:42 ` Pablo Mercader Alcántara
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