From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: purpose and usage of secondary-selection ??? Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39104568-7083-47af-98a5-344d703be116@default> References: <818624dd-425a-8a1b-6362-6e555685cc2f@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474054799 24564 195.159.176.226 (16 Sep 2016 19:39:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:39:59 +0000 (UTC) To: gebser@mousecar.com, GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 16 21:39:50 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bkyz5-0004Lu-7q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:39:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43505 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkyz3-00066i-AV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:39:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39732) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkyyC-000616-Bf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkyy6-0005VI-Hy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:17727) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkyy5-0005Tl-Us for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:38:38 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u8GJcSZF027905 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:38:29 GMT Original-Received: from userv0122.oracle.com (userv0122.oracle.com [156.151.31.75]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u8GJcS9H030978 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:38:28 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0013.oracle.com (abhmp0013.oracle.com [141.146.116.19]) by userv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u8GJcQGp007606; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:38:28 GMT In-Reply-To: <818624dd-425a-8a1b-6362-6e555685cc2f@mousecar.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6753.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111349 Archived-At: > PS (to developers): It would be nice if the emacs menus had some mention > of secondary-selection, maybe some of its very basic functionality. Not > a big fan of mousing around in text processors or editors, but sometimes > a menu can give a clue when I don't have one. :) Please consider sending enhancement suggestions to the Emacs developers, by doing `M-x report-emacs-bug' (that is also for enhancements). Wrt your menu idea: There are few vanilla-Emacs commands that involve the secondary selection. Those that do exist I cannot imagine being useful on a menu. But I do agree with you that it can be helpful to discover commands by exploring menus. Library `second-sel.el' offers some more secondary-selection commands, and some of them can be useful on a menu. Library `menu-bar+.el' adds these to the `Edit' menu, after `Paste': `Paste Secondary' `Move Secondary to Region' `Swap Region and Secondary' `Select Secondary as Region' https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MenuBarPlus