From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David De La Harpe Golden" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving X selection? Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:18:43 +0000 Message-ID: <8e24944a0802071318v23d0873dwe3017e0b78fc0178@mail.gmail.com> References: <8e24944a0802041302n45064c4fm2ac428ceda204254@mail.gmail.com> <47A80B57.3050402@swipnet.se> <8e24944a0802061957re4baf7cr9560fa3496be56b4@mail.gmail.com> <8e24944a0802070815n18dea273j5c3962235d91ca8e@mail.gmail.com> <87bq6sir34.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8e24944a0802071022i2b259c5fka14f191a3c519157@mail.gmail.com> <20080207160124.7eec9cdd@tomh> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202419143 24437 80.91.229.12 (7 Feb 2008 21:19:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:19:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , "Jan D." , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , rms@gnu.org To: "Tom Horsley" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 07 22:19:25 2008 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 1JNE9S-00031Z-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:19:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNE8z-0006RZ-Bc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:18:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNE8w-0006RG-1N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:18:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNE8u-0006Qf-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:18:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNE8u-0006Qb-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNE8u-00071g-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id e6so6128912qbe.2 for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:18:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=wsR+U1D6lltvbBdP8YjP0j8yUpNlFvRCXzTonJe0XVQ=; b=AWxsQj9gBOTmTYS5OCUeO1gCKkvl7ODA99xMy1CtL4OVpK7bLUnP5/WKQlXMUC8Fccbde2uy0ZbGlelEKRcp4TRliK3CoSDapb38kswSFQNnJuEWj5c7ny14H/r+VzJEu60u/eVz0AbKPoubcUO/60SWtGihU4TD2YM5+3y1C0o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=x08pI3M8ymrBhLFAcyh1mAvTyep5Z0jQzcITFDbio+cm7UY1tPPazEVayAZfAxyampY/g1OZB0yPoGN6Pk5vbbesYkGtTX9X3UPdQWhtAEOLQ8o/QXpMKTYqa4rdX+v73yf/7BOpNgUUQnbEDT/kOYJoqjCF99IWYUCAsbNkgmc= Original-Received: by 10.142.212.19 with SMTP id k19mr6603091wfg.154.1202419123428; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:18:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.142.111.4 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:18:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20080207160124.7eec9cdd@tomh> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:88460 Archived-At: On 07/02/2008, Tom Horsley wrote: > Xterm only does PRIMARY. FWIW, that's not true of at least vaguely recent xterm - Holding down ctrl-middlemouse should bring up a menu with a "select to clipboard" option. > I happen to think the invention of CLIPBOARD was perhaps the single > most brain damaged idea ever foisted upon users by the singularly > brain damaged group of folks who call themselves freedesktop, I realise that's probably slightly tongue in cheek, but CLIPBOARD long pre-dates the freedesktop effort AFAIK. Some of the same people might be involved I guess.