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: mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:08:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <837hf2gc0p.fsf@gnu.org> <4D114EF0.8090706@harpegolden.net> <4D12166B.8010002@harpegolden.net> <8339ppfwhi.fsf@gnu.org> <4D127751.7070501@harpegolden.net> <83y67hdtkf.fsf@gnu.org> <4D12FB25.6020909@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293095321 7181 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2010 09:08:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net To: "Jan D." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 23 10:08:37 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 1PVhA0-0002OE-1Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:08:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PVh9z-0002Dc-F6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:08:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59225 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PVh9u-0002Bf-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:08:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PVh9r-0004OF-RA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:08:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:45373) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PVh9r-0004OA-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:08:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PVh9n-0004ew-N1; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:08:19 -0500 In-reply-to: <4D12FB25.6020909@swipnet.se> (jan.h.d@swipnet.se) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:133922 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:32:53 +0100 > From: "Jan D." > CC: David De La Harpe Golden , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > The reason was indeed to call x-selection-value-internal. Thanks! > All this selection stuff is a bit messy now. Yep. > Ideally x-get-selection should use x-select-request-type and we > could reduce the number of function that gets selection on X. > However, one would have to check all platforms and all uses of the > current routines to do a good refactoring. One way forward would be for Someone™ to suggest the refactoring on X, and then ask experts for other platforms to adapt the platform-specific emulations to that.