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: Re: Selection changes Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:48:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4C4B5FA0.7020602@harpegolden.net> References: <87ocea2ax1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C40FCEC.9030404@harpegolden.net> <87pqym2a4r.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4C411552.40003@harpegolden.net> <87eif2n7d7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878w5a23ax.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <04B92DEADC9D46F38CB42B91679795DE@us.oracle.com> <87k4onmatk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83wrsmtrn5.fsf@gnu.org> <4C4B347D.7020608@harpegolden.net> <83ocdw8w0o.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1280008114 28068 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2010 21:48:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:48:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, miles@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 24 23:48:32 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 1Ocma7-0002q9-5C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:48:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ocma6-0002pN-GG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49990 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OcmZz-0002pH-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:48:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OcmZy-00030R-Du for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:48:23 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:41271) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OcmZv-0002zf-S2; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.55.209] (87-198-55-209.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.55.209]) (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 C1C5F683FF; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:48:15 +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: <83ocdw8w0o.fsf@gnu.org> 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:127753 Archived-At: On 24/07/10 21:28, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Windows apps do _not_ typically overwrite the clipboard upon mere >> selection of text > > Did Emacs on Windows really do that before these changes? I thought > it didn't. Yes - though dependent on whether you used mouse or keyboard to select... With mixed-mouse-keyboard established regions possible (shift-extending an initially mouse-selected region has worked for some time, mouse-extending an initally keyboard-selected region could be made work*), there isn't a clean division either. So, hence the (still hypothetical) "clipboard-active-regions": it would be for people who want the active region consistently put to the clipboard whether the selection was established by mouse or keyboard or both. People who want mouse to go to the clipboard but not keyboard could turn on mouse-drag-copy-region and leave clipboard-active-regions turned off. * You may _think_ it works already (emacs' mouse-3), but currently that also side-effects, you can't _just_ mouse-extend the region like other apps' shift-mouse-1. (as per some discussion under #6701, though it properly belongs in a separate ticket).