Re: emacs 23 under wine...

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

Deniz Dogan wrote:

> Just curious: what's the reason for running Emacs under Wine?

Expanding select-active-regions capabilities in a controlled manner on 
w32. A few weeks back, there was some confusion as to what it was for*, 
and some valid criticism of the X11-specific nature of its 
implementation. I said I'd try to look at cross-platform-ising it better 
while allowing it to (optionally!) affect clipboard as well as primary 
as Eli desired, and I am doing so.

However, I have no access to microsoft windows, so seeing if emacs built 
under wine was an interesting approach.  And... turns out it does, 
pretty much. Very slow going though, it may be another week before I 
feel like revisiting it for the next step.

* propagating active region contents to the primary X11 selection 
without affecting the clipboard X11 selection or kill-ring.