From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: select-active-regions
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:15:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A622D78.7090802@harpegolden.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fxctpyg1.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Not when you use Emacs, which puts text into clipboard on every kill.
>
Select-active-regions is essentially not intended to be such an
operation though, it quite deliberately avoids placing text on the
kill-ring or clipboard on x11 and ONLY sets primary.
You're muddling mouse-drag-copy-region and select-active-regions I
think. The former affects the kill ring, and typically though not
necessarily, x11 select-active-regions users would actually turn off
mouse-drag-copy-region as what they probably want is:
* keyboard and mouse selection and mouse middle click involves ONLY primary
* keyboard/menu/toolbar kill/kill-ring-save/yank (... cut/copy/paste),
involves ONLY kill-ring_and_clipboard.
Why do they want that? Because it's how quite a lot of other X11 apps
work nowadays, if you assume the kill-ring is analogous to an extended
clipboard (as e.g. cua-mode clearly assumes when it does its binding
trickery). The point was for emacs to optionally (optionally!) support
such behaviour, with the following:
(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
(setq x-select-enable-primary nil)
(setq mouse-drag-copy-region nil)
(setq select-active-regions t)
(global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-primary)
If you also want C-x/C-c/C-v bindings, you of course also turn on cua-mode.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-18 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-18 11:20 select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 13:41 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 13:47 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 13:54 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 14:19 ` select-active-regions Chong Yidong
2009-07-18 18:33 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 18:48 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 19:23 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:50 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-19 14:41 ` select-active-regions Jason Rumney
2009-07-19 17:39 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 19:36 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-19 20:20 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 21:52 ` select-active-regions Lennart Borgman
2009-07-20 3:15 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-20 3:20 ` select-active-regions Lennart Borgman
2009-07-20 18:40 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-20 0:22 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-20 3:12 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 18:51 ` select-active-regions Chong Yidong
2009-07-18 19:20 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:37 ` select-active-regions Chong Yidong
2009-07-18 19:45 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 20:15 ` David De La Harpe Golden [this message]
2009-07-18 18:45 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 19:26 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:10 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:30 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
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