From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?windows-1252?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving X selection? Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:06:20 +0200 Message-ID: <471349AC.9030806@swipnet.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192446461 11347 80.91.229.12 (15 Oct 2007 11:07:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:07:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, jeremy@jeremyms.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Horsley, Tom" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 15 13:07:30 2007 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 4.50) id 1IhNmk-0000no-BO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:06:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhNmd-00049X-EZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhNmP-00043P-Te for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhNmO-00042j-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhNmO-00042e-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net ([81.228.9.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhNmF-0006Ob-NY; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: by av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 9A77B37EE5; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:05:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.102]) by av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE2E37ED2; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:05:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (90-231-102-24-no59.tbcn.telia.com [90.231.102.24]) by smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FAC637E4E; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:06:25 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:80911 Archived-At: Horsley, Tom skrev: >>> I am very opposed to any solution that drags in any selection I explicitly >>> does not paste into Emacs. For example, if I want to paste CLIPBOARD, >>> PRIMARY >>> may be a very large selection. Over a slow link, getting PRIMARY also makes >>> Emacs unresponsive for several seconds. >> This just means that not all users will like the proposal, and >> therefore we should have an option to let the users decide what they >> want. The option should probably be tristate, as the current behavior >> could have its zealots as well, who will hate the change. Maybe even >> 4 different values, see below. > > Actually, I was sort of thinking that once the basic support > for returning multiple selection strings was implemented, an > X specific change could be devised that would introduce a > configurable variable something like: > > x-paste-what-selections > > which could be a list of 'CLIPBOARD, 'PRIMARY, etc. > That would have to be something like: x-paste-what-selections-with-menubar x-paste-what-selections-with-toolbar x-paste-what-selections-with-keys x-paste-what-selections-with-mouse to be useful, i.e. able to support the freedesktop model. Jan D.