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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net
Subject: Re: mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:13:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PVMd9-0003Qt-Li@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <544D91959D2A4709BBE91F5E828A8A60@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com)

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:18:37 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@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.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-22 11:13 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 [this message]
2010-12-22 15:11           ` Drew Adams
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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