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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 0a53e5f751: ; * etc/NEWS: Improve wording.
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 07:58:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkM9UVrpesnMOGwPG-eLTOkiz91bQeAuXFKe3YWzs8GiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221004053529.D0339C11D79@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> -*** 'mouse-drag-copy-region' can now be 'non-empty' (the Lisp symbol).
> -This inhibits putting empty strings onto the kill ring.
> +*** The value of 'mouse-drag-copy-region' can now be the symbol 'non-empty'.
> +This prevents mouse drag gestures from putting empty strings onto the
> +kill ring.

Is the use case for this option to get "" on the kill ring?  Does anyone
really want that?

IOW, couldn't this value just be simplified away, and nil behave as
`non-empty'?



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