From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: select-active-regions Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:37:15 -0400 Message-ID: <87iqhp3hqs.fsf@stupidchicken.com> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247945856 11370 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2009 19:37:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 18 21:37:29 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 1MSFiq-00075l-1e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:37:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50529 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSFip-0000Hz-B7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:37:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSFil-0000Ft-7T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSFig-00006F-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:37:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57386 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSFig-00005s-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po30.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.4]:49554) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MSFie-00031A-13; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:37:16 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014244.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.244]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po30.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n6IJbFS8011818 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2DBD5C09B; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:37:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83k525pzmg.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:20:07 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.96 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:112704 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> > Now, why would it be wrong to translate this to mean that the >> > shift-selected stretch of text be copied to the Windows clipboard? >> >> In Windows applications, shift-selecting a stretch of text does not copy >> it to the clipboard. > > Some application do, and I like it. PuTTY (the Windows SSH client) is > one example. That's surely wildly non-standard behavior. My impression is that the clipboard, on both X and Windows, is meant to have a certain amount of "stability". 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.