From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27530: patch to cut and copy secondary Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 19:04:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83o9qn24py.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8360cx2nf5.fsf@gnu.org> <20170906.080649.998450082346196979.tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> <83r2vk1ror.fsf@gnu.org> <20170906.124252.919138792281853431.tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504713954 4441 195.159.176.226 (6 Sep 2017 16:05:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 27530@debbugs.gnu.org To: Tak Kunihiro Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 06 18:05:44 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dpcpN-0008JU-8M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:05:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36956 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpcpU-0008Bn-FF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41206) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpcpE-00084J-3x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpcp4-0007gL-28 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44551) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpcp3-0007gE-VZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dpcp3-0003Sz-OQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:05:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:05:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 27530 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 27530-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B27530.150471389113305 (code B ref 27530); Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:05:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27530) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Sep 2017 16:04:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53232 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dpcos-0003SX-Su for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50073) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dpcoq-0003SJ-S3 for 27530@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpcoh-00073T-D3 for 27530@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:04:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53381) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpcoh-00073O-8q; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:04:39 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4857 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dpcog-000242-SY; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:04:39 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170906.124252.919138792281853431.tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> (message from Tak Kunihiro on Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:42:52 +0900 (JST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:136639 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:42:52 +0900 (JST) > Cc: 27530@debbugs.gnu.org, tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp > From: Tak Kunihiro > > >>> In Emacs 24, we have changed how selection works to conform with > >>> other modern X applications, by having primary selection set only > >>> via mouse gestures, whereas keyboard commands work with the > >>> clipboard. Doesn't your proposal go in the opposite direction? > >> > >> I see. I wonder if the direction lets the secondary selection > >> react with region-reacting functions such for comment-dwim. > > > > I'm not sure I understand this comment. Can you elaborate? > > I often want to comment out text with mouse-secondary-overlay. > > I meant if `mouse-secondary-overlay -> region' direction is not > supported, text with mouse-secondary-overlay cannot be commented out > until I select the text again as region. I thought it is good to > avoid redundant operation if possible. If we want a function that will put region around secondary selection, why not write such a function, and let users who want to code commands that use this functionality do that? IOW, why do we have to come up with a command to do something which we aren't sure is a frequent use case?