From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: select-active-regions Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:20:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83zlb2p79y.fsf@gnu.org> <83ocrhq1sk.fsf@gnu.org> <4A6218EE.8@harpegolden.net> <83iqhppzg5.fsf@gnu.org> <4A63309E.7050903@gnu.org> <83eiscpo6x.fsf@gnu.org> <4A6375B5.1090406@harpegolden.net> <8363dopgqc.fsf@gnu.org> <831vocoxjd.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248060022 18191 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2009 03:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 20 05:20:15 2009 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 1MSjQE-00086N-JK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:20:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39297 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSjQD-0003Oc-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSjQ9-0003Ne-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSjQ5-0003Lb-3y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57469 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSjQ4-0003LY-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f219.google.com ([209.85.217.219]:57254) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MSjQ2-00082v-CD; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: by gxk19 with SMTP id 19so3406327gxk.18 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:20:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=G7k/Qv+yl2I/IFUFOeEK8bb0i9hA/sAJD/MLd29LcQc=; b=uRf4IH543uCOHPoUUZfgYWVlj4ymceSvGx5kVQHS4yVKi5cSYfzJIGopI1ETDNtWCN mLZT403dPBqGKz06pfMmlDamv27ldoRwTPsrOJu9FgKq4YdBT19GR4MatfyKlH+bNNwg JDIvkjFm5uJwxYSQVSke7nfRVtoGQbZYh3czs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CjCJtP3xbGPA40ieWPevi6q/fHi9n+/KNA2h5VrHyzrgii0M8c+0GDstctiHtNZ9yg Kcn6Qhm22bYReGvJZGLg5MkndLN1kfDsjOh54KRTeVptnUM5qZT1YdpF/MEieiIiF70u 906hLia6kooIt+e2YfHAzLU6PIjl14zCtVkl0= Original-Received: by 10.100.31.17 with SMTP id e17mr5562467ane.160.1248060001240; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:20:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <831vocoxjd.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:112805 Archived-At: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:52:20 +0200 >> From: Lennart Borgman >> Cc: David De La Harpe Golden , cyd@stupidchicken.= com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 jasonr@gnu.org >> >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > >> > As I explained elsewhere in this thread, Emacs on DOS and Windows >> > thrashes the clipboard all the time anyway. =C2=A0So anyone using Emac= s on >> > Windows ought to be accustomed to that already. =C2=A0I know I am. >> >> I have never noticed that problem. It might be because I use Viper and >> the vi cut, copy and paste operations are structured like the CUA >> dito. Everyone expect CUA operations to use the clipboard and Viper/vi >> uses it the same way. It would be quite annoying if that was broken. > > This is a misunderstanding: I didn't say copying to clipboard was > broken. =C2=A0I said that Emacs on Windows copies text to the clipboard > very often, and so its (the clipboard's) contents is quite volatile > when Emacs is around. Yes, I thought you said that, but I have not noticed it. Maybe because I am using a subset of the commands for those types of operation. But then, if it is very volatile because a lot of commands are copying to it, why not fix that?