From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: select-active-regions Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:41:34 +0800 Message-ID: <4A63309E.7050903@gnu.org> References: <83zlb2p79y.fsf@gnu.org> <4A61D0F6.5040901@harpegolden.net> <83skgup04t.fsf@gnu.org> <87ws6613c7.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <83ocrhq1sk.fsf@gnu.org> <4A6218EE.8@harpegolden.net> <83iqhppzg5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248014559 15481 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2009 14:42:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:42:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, David De La Harpe Golden To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 19 16:42:32 2009 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 1MSXaw-0000hD-Dx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:42:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52510 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSXav-0003dJ-Gm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:42:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSXar-0003cY-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:42:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSXan-0003bv-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:42:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53433 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSXan-0003bs-OL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f202.google.com ([209.85.222.202]:53296) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MSXam-00064S-CU; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk40 with SMTP id 40so1279529pzk.14 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:42:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hgcR+U6xAknqjFchLsO6YmBrt2A9w8NUFIOB2Njy+r4=; b=KPGL1Ohqg4UEmjH4H+zf3rPIHm4SNKrqzLYx5dbk8Wx5nOHiqecLBJ+A1g124H/jTs WTJkMVf7/MyLPejmwShztGiZvYSBNyE1qOIJTalJudRn/u867WnQGC5VkDiHAO1SWsMp aiSRtJlKXGrIKdZ/Y2RipZg94m2X7+wergbfA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NPvsJlu3NbkQ6gdxiFgjE4/k3UsS3UP+OqUjgc1sTUusZoR7hGaLyR8AZyXFTbjbkF JQaSZiNOo4KprMtuF7vgIX+BYMQa49DaPlfCPvM87JHQOtdbbgnLBsJ7wJFl5g7PIaMO 3xXXR7chClyDylbJFBUtaWqGpsCqYWCzFtoio= Original-Received: by 10.114.14.14 with SMTP id 14mr4395418wan.137.1248014538152; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:42:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?192.168.249.26? ([124.13.7.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l38sm7010976waf.26.2009.07.19.07.42.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:42:17 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) In-Reply-To: <83iqhppzg5.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:112754 Archived-At: 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.