Re: Improving X selection?

[David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>]

David Hansen wrote:

>>> Please ignore this if it's already been hammered to death, but what about
>>> using C-Insert/Shift-Insert for the clipboard?
>> That would make a lot of sense to me,
> 
> Shift-Insert is kind of quasi standard to paste the *selection* on X11.
> This would make emacs behavior even more "non standard".  I don't care
> much, just wanted to note that.
> 


Might be nicer the other way around i.e. C-w/M-w/C-y (and C-x/C-c/C-v in
cua mode) to use CLIPBOARD and S-Delete/C-Insert/S-Insert to use PRIMARY....

In the end, like everything else in this area, probably need to be
configurable to keep everyone happy, of course. ho hum.