From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Ole Laursen" <olau@hardworking.dk>
Cc: 1765@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1765: Copy/paste inconsistent with other X apps
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:33:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r63j4uez.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
> In every other recent X app I have tried, copy/pasting works the way
> that the mouse selection = copy and middle click = paste is seperate
> from the C-c/C-v clipboard. I think it makes sense to change the
> Emacs behaviour to make it a good citizen in the free desktop. And
> it's arguably also more likely to prevent loss of clips.
Set x-select-enable-clipboard to t.
(We might consider making this the default after the release. ISTR
there was a technical reason not to do this, but details elude me right
now. Maybe it's a matter of speed?)
next reply other threads:[~2009-01-04 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-04 3:33 Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-01-04 8:09 ` bug#1765: Copy/paste inconsistent with other X apps Sven Joachim
2009-01-04 16:29 ` Ole Laursen
2009-01-05 2:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-05 12:59 ` Ole Laursen
[not found] ` <mailman.3895.1231057410.26697.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-05 12:15 ` Thomas E. Dickey
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2009-08-07 19:31 Ole Laursen
2009-01-25 23:58 David De La Harpe Golden
2009-01-02 15:41 Ole Laursen
2009-01-04 21:41 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-05 12:52 ` Ole Laursen
2009-01-05 13:00 ` Ole Laursen
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