From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 7699@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7699: 24.0.50; Emacs still doesn't paste what you select with mouse
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:33:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B8222ADEB0AD4593891675602114ED05@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838vzjey66.fsf@gnu.org>
> > select some text with the mouse (e.g. drag
> > mouse-1). Click mouse-2 to paste the text you selected.
> > Instead what was copied to the clipboard gets pasted.
>
> It will work as you want if you customize mouse-drag-copy-region to a
> non-nil value, I think.
Yes, and that's what I use for myself.
This report is about the default setting of nil, i.e., for others.
> I will try to fix the default case as well in a few days (let me know
> if you want meanwhile to try a fix -- it's in mouse.el), but no
> promises, since this is all very tricky due to conflicting
> requirements and the fact that Windows doesn't have primary selection.
> See, for example, bug#6689.
Great, thanks. And good luck.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-21 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-21 17:36 bug#7699: 24.0.50; Emacs still doesn't paste what you select with mouse Drew Adams
2010-12-21 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-21 19:33 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-12-25 10:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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