From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Selection changes in revno 100822 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:10:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <834oeyv3ww.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxsqyp98.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83zkwptyij.fsf@gnu.org> <4C66660D.3090603@swipnet.se> <83sk2htp82.fsf@gnu.org> <4C66A8C5.4040203@harpegolden.net> <83hbixte8c.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrrs276x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83d3tis7qs.fsf@gnu.org> <87d3tiq7qn.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282029051 25766 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2010 07:10:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, david@harpegolden.net To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 17 09:10:49 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlGJs-0002XI-Te for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:10:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlGJs-0001cv-7E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52185 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlGJl-0001cq-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:10:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlGJk-0008LG-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:10:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:50544) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlGJk-0008LB-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlGJi-0005vy-2Z; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:10:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d3tiq7qn.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:128812 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , > david@harpegolden.net, > cyd@stupidchicken.com, > jan.h.d@swipnet.se, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:43:28 +0900 > > Stefan Monnier writes: > > > >> >> > Here is a summary of the current scheme: > > >> >> [...] > > >> >> > 5. mouse-2 yanks primary. > > >> >> Question: how do I yank the primary from the keyboard? > > >> >> I used to do that with C-y very happily. > > >> > Gotta tinker with x-select-enable-primary, I think. > > >> We need a better answer. > > > I'm not sure what to make of this remark. > > That I think it needs to be possible to do it from the keyboard, > > even with the default settings. > > If that's what you want, how about adding "copy text from primary and > paste it" functionality to yank itself? `yank' already supports such a functionality (that's how `mouse-yank-at-click' works). But it is currently triggered only when `yank' is called from a mouse click. What is needed is a way to do that e.g. with some special value of a prefix arg.