From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 8384@debbugs.gnu.org, stephen.berman@gmx.net
Subject: bug#8384: 24.0.50; Yanking and text properties
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:53:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcgvb8v2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Q6yd8-0001Cp-Ei@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:16:42 -0400")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > Is this difference between the two types of yanking a programming bug or
>> > a feature (of the primary selection?) that is AFAICS undocumented and
>> > hence a doc bug?
>>
>> Hmm. I'd be inclined to consider the inconsistency a bug, - if C-w/M-y
>> sequences are property-preserving intraprocess*, so too should be
>> select/middleclick sequences, really.
>
> It could be a bug, or it could be a side effect of the implementation,
> because the text we select with a mouse is treated very differently
> from the text we put on the kill ring.
It just involves replacing buffer-substring-no-properties with
buffer-substring in deactivate-mark. I agree that this inconsistency
with C-w/M-w might as well be fixed, so I did that in the trunk.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 4:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-30 22:26 bug#8384: 24.0.50; Yanking and text properties Stephen Berman
2011-04-04 20:53 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-04-05 5:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 4:53 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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