From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On cut, copy, paste etc... Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:23:32 +0300 Message-ID: References: <4892D6AC.6000308@alice.it> <4892E5EA.9070200@alice.it> <4893007E.1020502@alice.it> <87myjw7qcy.fsf@gmx.de> <87vdykravs.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217615039 11406 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 18:23:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it To: Sven Joachim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 01 20:24:49 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 1KOzIt-00033g-1e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:24:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50578 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOzHx-0007ZT-JU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOzHt-0007Y0-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOzHr-0007W3-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52414 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOzHr-0007Vz-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:23:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:57577) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOzHq-0003SN-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:23:35 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.228.238]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K4X00A2YPRF3I12@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:23:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87vdykravs.fsf@gmx.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:101912 Archived-At: > From: Sven Joachim > Cc: angelo.graziosi@alice.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:52:07 +0200 > > >> And as nearly every other modern application uses the clipboard for > >> copy'n paste keyboard shortcuts, Emacs not doing this by default will > >> irritate novice users anyway. > > > > Sorry, I'm not following: what is it that Emacs doesn't do by default, > > or won't be doing under my suggestion? > > It doesn't use the clipboard for kill-region, yank and friends. Under > X, that is; the Windows default is different. Do you mean literally the clipboard (as opposed to X selection, that is)? Because C-w does set the X selection, and yank does look at the X selection. Isn't that what other GUI applications do on X?