Re: multiple kill and paste from X clipboard

[Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr> writes:

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>> I'm definitely not an expert in the way selection works in GUIs, nor how
>> this works in Emacs.  So I can't judge what your patch does, sorry.
>> This said, maybe a "safer" change is to propagate the information that
>> a particular request is a "TARGETS" request to the
>> `x-sent-selection-functions` so that *your* function can decide whether
>> that should count as consuming or not.
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> This is what is not clear to me because this information is already
> propagated (and handled) via 'type' in my function 'next-primary'.
> FWIW, it may also be a bug in firefox because this works in chromium for
> example.

Ok, so just a "heads up" on this.  My test with Firefox was not exactly
useful: I only test it in the address bar.  But this works as expected
with web forms.  So I think there might be some bug in primary selection
handling in the Firefox address bar… but I could live with that.
-- 
Manuel Giraud