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: Improving X selection? Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:10:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192507888 11325 80.91.229.12 (16 Oct 2007 04:11:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:11:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, jeremy@jeremyms.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Horsley, Tom" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 16 06:11:18 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 1Ihdm1-00028x-Ba for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:11:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ihdlu-0003p8-Bk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:11:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhdlJ-0003LN-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhdlJ-0003Kc-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhdlI-0003KN-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhdlI-0005vU-Lg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhdlH-0002z3-ML; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:10:31 -0400 In-reply-to: (Tom.Horsley@ccur.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:80978 Archived-At: 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: There is no reason to hesitate before implementing the basic patch that you described, which only makes it POSSIBLE for the function to return multiple strings.