From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "David De La Harpe Golden" <david.delaharpe.golden@gmail.com>
Cc: "Horsley, Tom" <Tom.Horsley@ccur.com>,
"Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improving X selection?
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:22:24 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlucguv3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e24944a0802071341t61901a5ucfee5ab9857c3a8b@mail.gmail.com>
David De La Harpe Golden writes:
> Okay, but then you have to be very careful about what
> x-select-enable-clipboard (or even a "select-enable-clipboard")
> actually denotes IMO:
>
> By that reading, a logical interpretation of a boolean var called
> select-enable-clipboard might be that when t, when text is merely
> selected, the clipboard is to be affected,
You mean that text would actually be copied to the clipboard? YMMV,
but it would never occur to me to interpret it that way. Rather, I
would interpret it that when text is selected, the til-then snoozing
clipboard gets a light tap on its shoulder "hey, man, wake up, we may
have some work for you to do!" (and then again, we may not).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-08 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-15 10:20 Improving X selection? Horsley, Tom
2007-10-15 11:06 ` Jan Djärv
2007-10-16 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-16 23:29 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2007-10-17 1:05 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2007-12-25 21:13 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-28 19:52 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-01-29 0:59 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-01 19:15 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-02 0:17 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-03 11:38 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-03 12:44 ` Jan D.
2008-02-03 13:12 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-04 21:02 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-05 3:38 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-05 7:08 ` Jan Djärv
2008-02-07 3:57 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 4:23 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-07 4:59 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 9:07 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-07 16:32 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 17:11 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 17:13 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-07 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-10 18:42 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-11 17:46 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-07 17:39 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 17:51 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-07 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-07 16:15 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 18:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-07 18:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 19:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-08 1:19 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-08 1:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 18:22 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 19:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-07 20:39 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 21:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-07 21:41 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-08 0:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-02-08 1:26 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 22:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-08 2:50 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-08 13:26 ` OT [was Re: Improving X selection?] Tom Horsley
2008-02-08 15:30 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-08 16:07 ` OT Stefan Monnier
2008-02-08 16:43 ` OT David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-08 14:41 ` Improving X selection? Stefan Monnier
2008-02-08 15:21 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-17 3:38 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-17 3:55 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 21:01 ` Tom Horsley
2008-02-07 21:18 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 21:36 ` Tom Horsley
2008-02-07 21:40 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-07 22:51 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <8e24944a0802071042u43d68f04pc8492ad8ce07aa18@mail.gmail.com>
2008-02-07 18:44 ` Fwd: " David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-03 16:18 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-03 18:29 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-05 5:58 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-05 6:23 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-05 6:56 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-03 16:18 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] <20071012105022.6c8b174a@tweety>
2007-10-14 16:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-14 17:25 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-10-15 6:19 ` Jan Djärv
2007-10-15 6:21 ` Jan Djärv
2007-10-15 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-15 6:55 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-15 8:16 ` Jan Djärv
2007-10-15 14:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-15 18:30 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 19:26 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-10-15 20:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-15 20:22 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-10-16 8:02 ` Frank Schmitt
2007-10-16 7:27 ` Jan Djärv
2007-10-16 10:08 ` René Kyllingstad
2007-10-16 13:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-18 15:29 ` René Kyllingstad
2008-08-18 18:47 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-18 19:16 ` David Hansen
2008-08-19 8:06 ` Frank Schmitt
2008-08-25 15:34 ` Juri Linkov
2008-08-25 15:56 ` Frank Schmitt
2008-08-28 17:45 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-28 17:58 ` Frank Schmitt
2008-08-28 18:19 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-29 5:53 ` David Hansen
2008-08-30 4:08 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-31 7:41 ` David Hansen
2008-08-20 22:41 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-25 15:34 ` Juri Linkov
2008-08-26 3:09 ` David Hansen
2008-08-26 8:03 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-26 8:41 ` David Hansen
2007-10-16 7:26 ` Jan Djärv
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