From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default? Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:31:24 +0200 Message-ID: <85pswx0wc3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <200504130141.j3D1fpAH016515@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <200504131854.j3DIsWAH021282@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <200504141908.j3EJ8sAH015866@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113522385 11148 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2005 23:46:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 15 01:46:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DME2L-00009S-Ui for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:46:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DME5j-00009J-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DME2m-0007kG-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DME2j-0007iV-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DME2j-0007gZ-0A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DME2G-0007ww-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:46:12 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost.localdomain) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DME1H-0004qz-92; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:45:11 -0400 Original-To: Dan Nicolaescu In-Reply-To: <200504141908.j3EJ8sAH015866@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:08:51 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:36001 Dan Nicolaescu writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > > > The argument is like this: a lot of users ONLY use the mouse in an xterm > > to select text and then use mouse-2 to paste it in another > > xterm/another application. Not being able to do this makes the mouse > > not very useful, and the user would blame emacs for this. > > > > Why would they not be able to do this? > > It isn't obvious. > > Because the a selection done with the mouse when xterm-mouse-mode is > active is not available to X. It is only available to Emacs, so it is > possible to use the mouse to copy between 2 emacs windows running in > the same terminal frame, but X know nothing about the selection. Isn't there a way to reoffer the selection? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum