From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working? 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Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:25:44 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.217.40) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:25:43 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Acs0AAZECIC3tR96RKqvHABhBMTUYAAAZpAw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 X-Source-IP: acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4C59B0B4.01B3:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:26:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39237 Archived-At: > > Ok, I just did (setq x-select-enable-primary t) and now things work > > much better. > > It's important to include such instructions in etc/NEWS. > The current text is "too close to the code", i.e. it > documents the code changes more than the resulting behavior changes. > > I also noticed another change wrt selection: double-click and > then drag only does "word-chunked selection" on the initial > double-click but not on the susequent drag. Why change the default behavior (esp. with no emacs-devel proposal and discussion)? Why not implement your changes ("improvements") as a new, optional alternative behavior? And then document _that_ in NEWS etc. IOW document whatever options you need to change to get the new behavior, instead of documenting what you need to do to get back the old behavior. If enough people like it and use it over time then we can consider changing the default behavior to it. That's the normal way to proceed for any significant behavior change. This seems to be a fundamental change to Emacs selection etc. It merits discussion, experimentation, and time trial.