From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default? Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:11:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200504130141.j3D1fpAH016515@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <200504131854.j3DIsWAH021282@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <200504141908.j3EJ8sAH015866@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113578070 8136 80.91.229.2 (15 Apr 2005 15:14:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:14:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 15 17:14:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMSUp-0001pv-2R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:12:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMSYL-0003oy-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:16:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DMSWc-00036f-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DMSWQ-0002zb-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:14:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMSWO-0002vh-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DMSUk-0004cU-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:12:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DMSTn-0000aM-5X; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:11:35 -0400 Original-To: Dan Nicolaescu In-reply-to: <200504141908.j3EJ8sAH015866@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> (message from Dan Nicolaescu on Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:08:51 -0700) 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:36029 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36029 Because the a selection done with the mouse when xterm-mouse-mode is active is not available to X. It is only available to Emacs, so it is possible to use the mouse to copy between 2 emacs windows running in the same terminal frame, but X know nothing about the selection. I did not realize it had this disadvantage. It is a serious one. I think we should put the default back to off.