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: mouse paste completely broken Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:20:06 +0100 Message-ID: <4C563966.5060500@harpegolden.net> References: <4C4DE616.7090001@gnu.org> <4C4F48CC.3040900@gnu.org> <4C4F6F62.7060500@harpegolden.net> <8739v3c48x.fsf@escher.home> 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 1280719224 7625 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2010 03:20:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 03:20:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sam Steingold , Chong Yidong , Stephen Berman To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 02 05:20:22 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 1OflZc-0002cw-Do for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:20:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57078 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OflZb-0000Sb-Gx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51283 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OflZT-0000SP-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OflZS-0002Hk-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:48063) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OflZS-0002HS-BH; Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.55.208] (87-198-55-208.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.55.208]) (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 612AB68474; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 04:20:05 +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: <8739v3c48x.fsf@escher.home> 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:128090 Archived-At: On 28/07/10 11:03, Stephen Berman wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:44:34 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden wrote: >> >> A fix for select-active-regions somewhat similar to the zero-length regions >> fix proposed approach should certainly be possible - really we don't want to >> propagate the active region of a newly switched-to-window until it "really" >> changes anew post-restoration. > > I would be very happy if someone would fix this; I reported it as > bug#6316 but that has gotten no feedback yet. > > Steve Berman > > I have an experimental/throwaway branch (x11 only at present) that you might find works more sensibly with multiple windows / frames and focus-follows-mouse. bzr branch lp:~ddlhg/emacs/selx Trouble is it is currently terribly messy in actual implementation terms.