From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Clipboard interactions [was: Re: Emacs learning curve] Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:15:10 +0100 Message-ID: <4C3A0A2E.2040408@harpegolden.net> References: <10954D02-E217-49F3-8824-757DA34074AB@gmail.com> <83zkxzakr0.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqyva8ms.fsf@gnu.org> <87630n6odf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <874og670l0.fsf@gmx.de> <87k4p257ho.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87fwzqyn4j.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878w5igcto.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87sk3p6gik.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278872526 12789 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2010 18:22:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:22:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 11 20:22:05 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 1OY19B-0003Ye-PL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:22:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51131 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OY198-0003Ik-1j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32989 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OY13d-0007vV-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:15:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY13Z-000721-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:46286) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY13Z-00071w-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.55.108] (87-198-55-108.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.55.108]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C39D0683A6 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:15:10 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100620 Icedove/3.0.5 In-Reply-To: <87sk3p6gik.fsf@gmx.de> 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:127064 Archived-At: On 11/07/10 19:05, Sebastian Rose wrote: > Chong Yidong writes: >> Miles Bader writes: >> >>> But other than that, why not just tell them to set >>> x-select-enable-clipboard ? >> >> Thanks for reminding me: is there any reason x-select-enable-clipboard >> isn't t by default? > > > I wouldn't want that. It's non-conform to what _all_ other applications on > Linux do (same on Windows, I believe). > > I mean no one would expect Firefox to put text into the clipboard if you > select it using the mouse. > [The mouse-drag-copy-region => nil I mentioned elsemail stops that in particular] > Why would I want to have each and every snippet I kill in the clipboard? > Buggered if I know, but last time the matter came up Eli in particular expressed a desire for that on w32. I did promise to allow that with a clipboard-active-regions setting by analogy with the existing select-active-regions. (I do _not_ want them mixed up!) Each build under w32 (via WINE, I don't have windows) for me is (or was, must try again) quite annoying and painful relative to the couple of minutes it takes to bootstrap emacs natively, so I haven't completed that work yet.