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).
next 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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