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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	 Noah Friedman <noah@splode.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Don't change `select-enable-primary` (was: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard)
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:50:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzgn223h7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871r0ehl3f.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:17:40 +0800")

> It's not related.  Here I'm trying to convince people to not enable
> `select-enable-primary' lightly, since that breaks other programs.

Then please change the title.

Is there a particular reason you care what people do with their
`select-enable-primary`?  E.g are you hoping to remove this var in some
(more or less distant) future because it would allow some important
simplification or performance improvement?

> There seems to be a lot of bad advice floating around, and that's one
> of them.

Indeed there is.  I tend to focus on those that affect more than just
the people who follow that advice.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-07 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-06  3:39 recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard Noah Friedman
2022-02-06  7:37 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06  9:20   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-06  9:34     ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 10:18   ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 16:09   ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07  1:11     ` Po Lu
2022-02-07  2:05       ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07  2:59         ` Po Lu
2022-02-07  5:04           ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07  5:17             ` Yuri Khan
2022-02-07  5:23               ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07  5:31             ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 22:39   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07  1:12     ` Po Lu
2022-02-07  2:53       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07  3:11         ` Po Lu
2022-02-07  3:41           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07  3:48             ` Po Lu
2022-02-07  4:05               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07  4:44                 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07  4:57                   ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-07  5:29                     ` Po Lu
2022-02-07  5:47                       ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-07  5:52                       ` tomas
2022-02-07  6:43                         ` Po Lu
2022-02-07  6:57                           ` tomas
2022-02-07 13:17                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-07 13:18                         ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 12:49               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-07 12:56                 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 13:14               ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-07 13:17                 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 13:50                   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-02-07 13:55                     ` Don't change `select-enable-primary` Po Lu
2022-02-07  1:11   ` recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard Tim Cross
2022-02-07  2:31     ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2022-02-06  9:17 ` Eli Zaretskii

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