From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6956: 24.0.50; pasting mouse selection in other session pastes only first word Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:26:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83eidek812.fsf@gnu.org> References: <296F488C207B496D9CA42F4AA0F7C835@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283276400 10405 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2010 17:40:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:40:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6956@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 31 19:39:57 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqUoO-0004Ac-2b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:39:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38449 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqUoN-0006AW-Fn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32923 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqUoF-00066g-AX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqUoA-0004gS-BV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53232) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqUoA-0004gK-8N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:39:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqUZ0-0000dE-CP; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:24:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:24:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6956 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6956-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6956.12832753902417 (code B ref 6956); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:24:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6956) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Aug 2010 17:23:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqUY8-0000cw-MS for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:23:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqUY6-0000ca-3d for 6956@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:23:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L8100J001O3EW00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 6956@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:24:43 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.202.93]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L8100JHY1P6BB60@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:24:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <296F488C207B496D9CA42F4AA0F7C835@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:24:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39864 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:48:44 -0700 > Cc: > > 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? > Not happy. I sure wish this mouse/keyboard/copy/paste/kill/yank/ stuff > would converge on a fixed point and would be fixed once and for all, so > we could somehow get back the (superior) behavior we had (at least on > Windows) prior to Emacs 24. > > For months now we've been promised that at a minimum users would be > able to easily get back the previous behavior. But all we've seen for > those months is a steady stream of problems. Admittedly some of those > problems are not directly related to each other - e.g. some are > applicable only to Windows or only to X or only to Mac or only to > xterms or only about the mouse or only about the keyboard or only > about copying or only about pasting or... I don't consider the current state of affairs as final on Windows in this regard. There's a couple of issues to discuss and then implement, but I'm waiting for the dust to settle in the X builds, before suggesting what I think should be done on Windows.