From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
Subject: Re: select-active-regions
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:41:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A63309E.7050903@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iqhppzg5.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The Windows clipboard is also analogous to the X11 primary selection,
> in that copy/paste work on Windows through the clipboard.
>
No, it is not analogous to the X11 primary selection, as the X11 primary
selection does not clobber the clipboard as any emulation of primary
selections using the clipboard necessarily would.
> Anyway, I'm unconvinced. The MS-DOS port will copy to the clipboard
> under select-active-regions. 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.
>
IIRC, Emacs on w32 used to emulate primary selections in the way you
describe, but it triggered many bug reports about Emacs destroying
clipboard contents when the user selected text in Emacs for reasons
other than killing or copying the region.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-19 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-18 11:20 select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 13:41 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 13:47 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 13:54 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 14:19 ` select-active-regions Chong Yidong
2009-07-18 18:33 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 18:48 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 19:23 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:50 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-19 14:41 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2009-07-19 17:39 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 19:36 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-19 20:20 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 21:52 ` select-active-regions Lennart Borgman
2009-07-20 3:15 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-20 3:20 ` select-active-regions Lennart Borgman
2009-07-20 18:40 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-20 0:22 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-20 3:12 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 18:51 ` select-active-regions Chong Yidong
2009-07-18 19:20 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:37 ` select-active-regions Chong Yidong
2009-07-18 19:45 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 20:15 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 18:45 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 19:26 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:10 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:30 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
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