From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:28:13 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293114511 27474 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2010 14:28:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david@harpegolden.net, "Jan D." , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 23 15:28:24 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 1PVm9X-0007KS-UG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:28:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PVm9X-0002ag-3i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:28:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44614 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PVm9Q-0002ab-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:28:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PVm9P-0005hp-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:28:16 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:3839 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PVm9O-0005hM-1E; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:28:14 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAHvrEk3O+ILX/2dsb2JhbACDZKBDdLBUkGeBIIM2dASEZY4b X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,219,1291611600"; d="scan'208";a="86380201" Original-Received: from 206-248-130-215.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.130.215]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 23 Dec 2010 09:28:13 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 125C06610E; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:28:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:08:19 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:133924 Archived-At: >> 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=E2=84=A2 to suggest the refactoring = on > X, and then ask experts for other platforms to adapt the > platform-specific emulations to that. Indeed, and Emacs-24 is as good an opportunity as any to do such a refactoring. Stefan