Re: select-active-regions

[David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> The Windows clipboard is also analogous to the X11 primary selection,
> in that copy/paste work on Windows through the clipboard.


copy/paste doesn't work on X11 through the primary selection.

> In other words, when there's only one interprogram buffer to put
> selected text, it is analogous to all the X selection facilities.
> 
> Anyway, I'm unconvinced.  The MS-DOS port will copy to the clipboard
> under select-active-regions. 

Shrug. I then strongly recommend the approach taken is to create the
x-select-active-regions-enable-primary and
x-select-active-regions-enable-clipboard variable I just proposed
elsepost, and set ..-enable-clipboard  to t on msdos, rather than 
mysteriously conflating primary and clipboard within 
x-set-selection/x-get-selection/x-selection-owner-p
for no good reason.

> For the w32 build, I'd like to hear
> other maintainers who work on the w32 build, but my opinion is that it
> should do that as well.


w32 doesn't change the meaning of passing 'PRIMARY vs. 'CLIPBOARD to
x-set-selection/x-get-selection/x-selection-owner-p , it
just sets x-select-enable-clipboard to t  so that killing and yanking
uses the clipboard.

Similarly, it could set the proposed 
x-select-active-regions-enable-clipboard
to t by default if you wanted select-active-regions to affect the
clipboard by default.