From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: select-active-regions, Emacs not X Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:13:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4C7CD5D2.9030504@online.de> References: <4C7BA0A2.9030602@easy-emacs.de> <87sk1wdw0y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C7BE2FA.6080003@easy-emacs.de> <87fwxwxau7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C7BFC0A.1060806@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283249846 20750 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2010 10:17:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , "Jan D." , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 31 12:17:24 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 1OqNu6-0004QH-1L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:17:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36390 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqNrR-0000qZ-55 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:14:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54862 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqNrH-0000ow-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:14:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqNrG-0002wE-A7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:14:27 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:57750) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqNrF-0002vk-Uf; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4dbc45d5.pool.mediaWays.net [77.188.69.213]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MHrmH-1OnMW02qcP-003m4a; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:14:22 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:zjN0G1QPJPLdH3qgyOhZQubhZcStbVDZbYIXCzwbUv6 j/4NDEH75T1Z1ijy2reMDA0p1V7wB4DiibkP1RYhCJQ6fX24yL u6uqsME3LVENs4UGEHtcdkKuaNo4zqis2Kd7wHc+xWVKHVgS7g QtTZ3+jKZqdfZZV0PiL5+D68niPtlL1bdBOS/iipFIDUc7Zkn4 rN7gvuZ5fG/KC2johyIGx4PZEY/0qfqO42o6wQt69A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:129485 Archived-At: Am 31.08.2010 10:08, schrieb Miles Bader: > Andreas Röhler writes: > >> IMHO pure cursor move should not send the region to clipboard per default. >> OTOH that seems a useful feature for mouse-regions >> > If you don't have the tmm region activated, cursor movement shouldn't > affect the selection. If you _do_ have the tmm region activated, on the > other hand, updating the region via cursor movement _should_ affect the > selection, because that's what the X selection is: roughly speaking > it's the "latest highlighted thing". > > There should be no difference between "tmm-keyboard-regions" and > "mouse-regions" -- they are both methods of selecting text, and both > look the same and behave very similarly in most other ways; to make > mouse regions "special" would simply confuse the user and disadvantage > keyboard users. > > Note that other apps (e.g., I tested firefox and chromium) also work > this way: updating a region of selected text with the keyboard sets the > X selection. > > -Miles > > Hi, delivered a bug report with the issue bug#6941: 24.0.50; yank doesn't return latest kill Don't see tmm activated. BTW all is fine after setting `select-active-regions' away from t. So I'm afraid, it just does what it should, if `select-active-regions' is t. Than question boils down not to set it `t' by default. Thanks Andreas