Re: Set X primary selection with Emacs in xterm

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> --- a/lisp/frame.el
>> +++ b/lisp/frame.el
>> @@ -2164,6 +2164,9 @@ display-selections-p
>>         (not (null dos-windows-version))))
>>       ((memq frame-type '(x w32 ns pgtk))
>>        t)
>> +     ((and (memq frame-type '(t))
>> +           (eq (terminal-parameter nil 'xterm--set-selection) t))
>> +      t)
>
> This doesn't look very clean... I wonder if there is a cleaner way to
> check for this support.

This snippet should belong in `xt-mouse.el` instead, indeed.
Either using an advice, or a generic function, or a `<foo>-predicate`
variable, or by having `xt-mouse.el` set a "generic" frame parameter
which could be called `display-selection-p`.


        Stefan