From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: gebser@mousecar.com, GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: purpose and usage of secondary-selection ???
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:38:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39104568-7083-47af-98a5-344d703be116@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <818624dd-425a-8a1b-6362-6e555685cc2f@mousecar.com>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-16 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-16 18:31 purpose and usage of secondary-selection ??? ken
2016-09-16 19:38 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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2016-09-16 16:55 ken
2016-09-16 17:14 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-16 17:48 ` ken
2016-09-16 18:18 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-13 19:15 ken
2016-09-13 20:23 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-13 21:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
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