Re: mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699

[David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>]

On 22/12/10 19:23, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 >> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:38:20 +0000
 >> From: David De La Harpe Golden<david@harpegolden.net>
 >> CC: Djärv<jan.h.d@swipnet.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
 >>
 >> Putting the call to w32 x-get-selection-value into mouse-yank-primary
 >> was pretty much where the "making it a zombie version of the old
 >> binding" remark was arising from.
 >
 > No, it wasn't.  It was to fix a bug.
 >

It was a remark I just made. Whether you've unleashed the zombie plague 
to get your girlfriend back or to conquer Venus, you've still unleashed 
the zombie plague.

 > And yes, I know: the resulting behavior is not as clean on w32 as it
 > is on X, but given the lack of selections, I think that it's as good
 > as it gets.

Well, please don't assert that just changing mouse-drag-copy-region 
without changing the mouse-2 binding is actually sufficient to restore 
old behaviour on w32. If you did assert that, anyway (Miss, Drew said 
Eli said...).  If even after all my explanations you and/or Drew 
genuinely think it does restore the old behaviour (rather than causing a 
different behaviour that may or may not be an acceptable substitute), 
then well, we're failing to communicate and I just don't think there's 
much more I can do there on my end.

In any case, I'm now going to look at getting certain remaining 
selection issues on x11 sorted out (I've just proven to my satisfaction 
that at least one nasty one that was present back in the summer is still 
present now), they're rather more important to myself as an x11 emacs user.