From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default? Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:08:51 -0700 Message-ID: <200504141908.j3EJ8sAH015866@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> References: <200504130141.j3D1fpAH016515@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <200504131854.j3DIsWAH021282@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113506481 26186 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2005 19:21:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:21:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 14 21:21:16 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DM9so-0007DX-0J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:20:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DM9w9-0002gQ-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DM9rM-0001Jn-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:18:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DM9qz-000191-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DM9qv-00015F-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.195.1.36] (helo=scanner2.ics.uci.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DM9in-00068S-OA; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from vino.ics.uci.edu (dann@vino.ics.uci.edu [128.195.11.198]) by scanner2.ics.uci.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3EJ8sAH015866; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:08:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:03:45 -0400") Original-Lines: 14 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-100, required 5, USER_IN_WHITELIST) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35985 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35985 Richard Stallman writes: > The argument is like this: a lot of users ONLY use the mouse in an xterm > to select text and then use mouse-2 to paste it in another > xterm/another application. Not being able to do this makes the mouse > not very useful, and the user would blame emacs for this. > > Why would they not be able to do this? > It isn't obvious. Because the a selection done with the mouse when xterm-mouse-mode is active is not available to X. It is only available to Emacs, so it is possible to use the mouse to copy between 2 emacs windows running in the same terminal frame, but X know nothing about the selection.