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: Improving X selection? Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:54:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8e24944a0802030338i1ce3397yba581ffedbe2f118@mail.gmail.com> <47A5B737.8000804@swipnet.se> <8e24944a0802030512t77c4ca20s6d059df50295ebd2@mail.gmail.com> <8e24944a0802041302n45064c4fm2ac428ceda204254@mail.gmail.com> <47A80B57.3050402@swipnet.se> <8e24944a0802061957re4baf7cr9560fa3496be56b4@mail.gmail.com> <47AACA36.9060901@gnu.org> <8e24944a0802070832l71e8fb1el91527f0b72d06a28@mail.gmail.com> <8e24944a0802070939j37fa7a4bh1c6d8cbafa34245a@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202414122 5277 80.91.229.12 (7 Feb 2008 19:55:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Horsley, Tom" , "Jan D." , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Jason Rumney To: "David De La Harpe Golden" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 07 20:55:44 2008 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 1JNCqG-00022O-WC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:55:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNCpo-0005MV-3m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:55:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNCpj-0005M1-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:54:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNCph-0005Lo-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:54:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNCph-0005Ll-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:54:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNCpb-0001GY-4B; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E7D2CF53B; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:54:46 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C206D3FE0; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:54:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id ADC2E6CAA0; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:54:40 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <8e24944a0802070939j37fa7a4bh1c6d8cbafa34245a@mail.gmail.com> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:39:00 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:88453 Archived-At: > That would forever entrench its usage as a non-platform-specific > customisation, Which is good. > which is IMO not good design, and then would mean yet another > customization needs to be introduced to actually customize the > x specifics! I don't see why we'd need anything else specific for X. If it's not sufficient for X (or for w32 or ...), then we can add yet more generic config vars, and then either ignore them on other GUIs or interpret them as best as we can. > The platforms in term/ supply their own > interprogram-cut/paste-functions - at least mac-win and pc-win and > x-win do - though they name-clashing name them x-select-text - IMO > should be e.g. mac-select-text on mac. As long as the C code can only be built with 1 GUI at the same time, this is not a big issue, but yes, that's of course true. > IMO the purpose of x-select-enable-clipboard should be to configure > the behaviour of the _x-_ implementation of the > interprogram-cut/paste-functions, Of course, it should be renamed to `select-enable-clipboard'. Stefan