From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving X selection? Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:06:22 +0200 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Message-ID: References: <20071012105022.6c8b174a@tweety> <874pgtfw1y.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <4713067D.2060504@swipnet.se> <87fy0cdvr6.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <471467FF.5070005@swipnet.se> <87vdxy2kwo.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219133252 19089 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2008 08:07:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:07:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 19 10:08:25 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 1KVMGH-0003ec-U3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:08:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59039 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVMFK-0001pG-Ql for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:07:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVMFB-0001oM-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVMF9-0001ni-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:07:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54309 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVMF9-0001nd-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:40945 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVMF8-0002DO-Nv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:07:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KVMF3-0003rf-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:07:01 +0000 Original-Received: from dhcp246.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.71.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:07:01 +0000 Original-Received: from ich by dhcp246.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:07:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp246.uni-koblenz.de X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/}, q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_U 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:102630 Archived-At: David Hansen writes: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:15:25 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>> Please ignore this if it's already been hammered to death, but what about >>> using C-Insert/Shift-Insert for the clipboard? >> >> That would make a lot of sense to me, > > Shift-Insert is kind of quasi standard to paste the *selection* on X11. > This would make emacs behavior even more "non standard". I don't care > much, just wanted to note that. I do care much. I use Shift-Insert to paste selection and Control+Insert to set selection all the time. If the behavior of those keys was changed, I'd be really p. off. -- Have you ever considered how much text can fit in eighty columns? Given that a signature typically contains up to four lines of text, this space allows you to attach a tremendous amount of valuable information to your messages. Seize the opportunity and don't waste your signature on bullshit that nobody cares about.