From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: select-active-regions Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:45:34 +0300 Message-ID: <83fxctpyg1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zlb2p79y.fsf@gnu.org> <4A61D0F6.5040901@harpegolden.net> <83skgup04t.fsf@gnu.org> <87ws6613c7.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <83ocrhq1sk.fsf@gnu.org> <87r5wdu8ns.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83k525pzmg.fsf@gnu.org> <87iqhp3hqs.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247946354 12416 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2009 19:45:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 18 21:45:47 2009 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 4.50) id 1MSFqp-00018s-Va for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:45:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45269 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSFqp-0005Bw-Hi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSFqj-00059K-A0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:45:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSFqi-00057m-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:45:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46854 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSFqi-00057i-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il ([84.95.2.19]:14212) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MSFqh-0004Mp-Ej for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout7.012.net.il by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KMZ00H00TAYE900@i-mtaout7.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:45:34 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.207.26]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KMZ009HWTJXJK10@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:45:34 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87iqhp3hqs.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:112705 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Cc: david@harpegolden.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:37:15 -0400 > > My impression is that the clipboard, on both X and Windows, is meant > to have a certain amount of "stability". Not when you use Emacs, which puts text into clipboard on every kill. > Text selection can occur very frequently---in Windows, for > instance, just left-clicking on the Firefox address bar selects the text > in the bar---and you don't want to clobber the clipboard for that. This is an optional feature; if the user enables it, she ought to know what she is doing. The alternative (what the current code does on w32) is to disable this feature on DOS and Windows entirely, with no user-level way of having it, even as an approximation to what we have on X. This alternative sounds much worse to me.