From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Horsley, Tom" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Improving X selection? Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:20:01 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192456756 14876 80.91.229.12 (15 Oct 2007 13:59:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:59:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, jeremy@jeremyms.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eli Zaretskii" , =?Windows-1252?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 15 15:59:06 2007 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 1IhQJI-0003dY-N6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:48:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhQJB-0004n1-Ut for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:48:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhN2Q-0002jg-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhN2P-0002j6-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhN2P-0002j0-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.ccur.com ([66.10.65.12]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhN2N-00045Z-LI; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:19:03 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Improving X selection? Thread-Index: AcgO9qMJuGddlrrzSR+kGb21tP7IpQAHTtxa X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:48:28 -0400 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:80921 Archived-At: >> I am very opposed to any solution that drags in any selection I = explicitly=20 >> does not paste into Emacs. For example, if I want to paste = CLIPBOARD, >> PRIMARY=20 >> may be a very large selection. Over a slow link, getting PRIMARY also = makes=20 >> Emacs unresponsive for several seconds. > >This just means that not all users will like the proposal, and >therefore we should have an option to let the users decide what they >want. The option should probably be tristate, as the current behavior >could have its zealots as well, who will hate the change. Maybe even >4 different values, see below. Actually, I was sort of thinking that once the basic support for returning multiple selection strings was implemented, an X specific change could be devised that would introduce a configurable variable something like: x-paste-what-selections which could be a list of 'CLIPBOARD, 'PRIMARY, etc. This would even allow emacs to interact with custom selections from custom apps by adding new non-standard selection names to the list (not that I think that is really likely anyone would actually use it :-).