From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Noah Friedman <noah@splode.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:17:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r0ehl3f.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh79a3jyl.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:14:13 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Some of those specs talk about interaction with other programs, in
> which case we should arguably follow them to be good neighbors. But
> other parts talk about the UI and only affect the contract between the
> application and the user. We have no obligation to follow those
> parts, tho of course it might make a lot of sense to make the default
> behavior follow those specs to avoid surprising the user.
>
> The change under discussion here was motivated by an optimization, so
> presumably it should not affect the interface between the user and
> Emacs, but only between Emacs and the system. So IIUC this is a part
> where the spec is indeed very relevant and we should strive to follow
> it. But I must say I don't know which part of the spec the change is
> related to. Could you clarify?
It's not related. Here I'm trying to convince people to not enable
`select-enable-primary' lightly, since that breaks other programs.
There seems to be a lot of bad advice floating around, and that's one of
them.
> These seem to only affect the contract between the user and Emacs, so if
> the users change them to their default, that can only hurt themselves.
>
> And AFAICT our default settings don't violate those parts 3, 4, and 5,
> so we're fine.
>
> And of course I still can't see in which way this relates to
> commit 99c637499e.
It doesn't relate, but I thought you were referring to the choice of
selection in the message I replied to earlier.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-07 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-06 3:39 recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard Noah Friedman
2022-02-06 7:37 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 9:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-06 9:34 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 10:18 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 16:09 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07 1:11 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 2:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07 2:59 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 5:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07 5:17 ` Yuri Khan
2022-02-07 5:23 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07 5:31 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 22:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07 1:12 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 2:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07 3:11 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 3:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07 3:48 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 4:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07 4:44 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 4:57 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-07 5:29 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 5:47 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-07 5:52 ` tomas
2022-02-07 6:43 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 6:57 ` tomas
2022-02-07 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-07 13:18 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-07 12:56 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-07 13:17 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-02-07 13:50 ` Don't change `select-enable-primary` (was: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard) Stefan Monnier
2022-02-07 13:55 ` Don't change `select-enable-primary` Po Lu
2022-02-07 1:11 ` recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard Tim Cross
2022-02-07 2:31 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2022-02-06 9:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-02-06 11:07 xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-02-06 11:21 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 11:37 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-02-06 11:47 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 11:55 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-02-06 12:01 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 12:06 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-02-06 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-06 12:15 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-02-06 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-06 12:15 ` tomas
2022-02-06 12:20 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-02-06 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-07 1:18 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 13:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-07 13:15 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 19:47 ` James Cloos
2022-02-07 19:53 ` tomas
2022-02-06 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
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