From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net
Subject: RE: mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:11:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DEA22CE8B2514CFCB7154FC428CAACC2@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PVMd9-0003Qt-Li@fencepost.gnu.org>
> > Wrt setting `select-active-regions': That variable (new in
> > Emacs 23) has very poor documentation (see bug #7702), but
> > from what I can tell from the doc it should have _no
> > effect at all_ on Emacs for Windows, because the latter
> > does not have a primary selection.
>
> Not entirely true: the Windows port emulates the primary selection
> within the same Emacs session. So customizing that option should make
> active regions available for pasting with mouse-2 on Windows as well,
> but only if you paste in the same Emacs session.
That confirms what I said about the doc. Nothing is said in the doc about this
emulation etc.
What this var does on a system where there is no primary selection is undefined
in the doc. And the proviso about "same session" signifies a difference that
should also be pointed out as part of the description.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-22 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-21 19:29 mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699 Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 1:05 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-22 1:38 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-22 3:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-22 4:18 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-22 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 15:11 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-12-22 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 19:09 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-22 11:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 15:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-22 15:38 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-22 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 21:37 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-23 4:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 22:10 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-23 4:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-23 7:32 ` Jan D.
2010-12-23 9:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-23 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-23 16:38 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-22 6:47 ` Jan Djärv
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