From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:09:12 -0800 Message-ID: <3EBC3B43F4AA4F1FBC7B9711A2ABA4EA@us.oracle.com> References: <837hf2gc0p.fsf@gnu.org> <4D114EF0.8090706@harpegolden.net> <48891CC6AE2144F1A04493C4B849EDDC@us.oracle.com> <4D116D9C.9000506@harpegolden.net> <544D91959D2A4709BBE91F5E828A8A60@us.oracle.com> <834oa5fx3p.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293045010 12390 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2010 19:10:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:10:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 22 20:10:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PVU4a-0007Ys-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:10:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54616 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PVU4Z-0000GR-I3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:10:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57893 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PVU4V-0000G0-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:09:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PVU4T-0002mZ-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:09:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:21926) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PVU4T-0002mV-O1; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:09:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id oBMJ9s8P014223 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:09:55 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt353.oracle.com (acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id oBMJ9pKA009272; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:09:52 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt001.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 898300151293044958; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:09:18 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:09:18 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <834oa5fx3p.fsf@gnu.org> Thread-Index: AcuiC02SgPazE/X5QHO46yOjwyltuwAACsFA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:133904 Archived-At: > > 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.