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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net
Subject: RE: mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:09:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EBC3B43F4AA4F1FBC7B9711A2ABA4EA@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834oa5fx3p.fsf@gnu.org>

> > And the proviso about "same session" signifies a difference that
> > should also be pointed out as part of the description.
> 
> That could be in the manual, but I see no good way of documenting this
> in the doc strings.  There's any number of functions and variables
> related to selections; saying this in all of them seems a bad idea,
> while saying just in some would not solve the problem.

I agree; the manual's the place.

The description of all of this stuff in the manual will need some work, once the
behavior is finalized.  It might not be easy to make it both readable and
comprehensive, but that's the challenge.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-22 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-21 19:29 mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699 Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22  1:05 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-22  1:38   ` Drew Adams
2010-12-22  3:16     ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-22  4:18       ` Drew Adams
2010-12-22 11:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 15:11           ` Drew Adams
2010-12-22 19:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 19:09               ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-12-22 11:09   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 15:16     ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-22 15:38       ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-22 19:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 21:37           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-23  4:01             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 19:17       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 22:10         ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-23  4:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-23  7:32             ` Jan D.
2010-12-23  9:08               ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-23 14:28                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-23 16:38                 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-22  6:47 ` Jan Djärv

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