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From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: clipboard/selection: customization vs. rebinding
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:12:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E07A0DB.7030503@harpegolden.net> (raw)

As a feature freeze is rapidly coming up, I'd like (...for some value of 
like...) to raise this one more time:

I remain concerned it's too hard to revert to "classic" emacs behaviour 
absent any UI for rebinding beyond "use emacs lisp". Right now, there's 
a mix of customization variable adjustments and a rebinding involved.

It's unlikely that a general customization-type UI for bindings will 
appear in the immediate future, so I propose for 24 binding mouse-2 back 
to mouse-yank-at-click but with the addition of boolean customization to 
control the precise behaviour to allow the desired fd.o-type behaviour. 
  Then one need only adjust customization variables to select between 
the classic and fd.o-type behaviours, rather than both customization 
variables and global bindings, which has been a source of confusion and 
misunderstanding (especially on platforms without a primary).

OTOH, if the mouse-2 binding is not reverted to mouse-yank-at-click, 
then note there are other binding sites that will need adjustment to 
mouse-yank-primary to match the new binding of mouse-2 for consistency 
(e.g. the fringes, where mouse-2 still does a mouse-yank-at-click).








             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-26 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-26 21:12 David De La Harpe Golden [this message]
2011-06-27 15:59 ` clipboard/selection: customization vs. rebinding Chong Yidong
2011-06-29  3:19   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-29 16:08     ` Chong Yidong
2011-06-30 16:57       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-01  5:12   ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-07-03 18:30     ` Chong Yidong

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