Re: Selection changes

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

On 24/07/10 21:28, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
>> Windows apps do _not_ typically overwrite the clipboard upon mere
>> selection of text
>
> Did Emacs on Windows really do that before these changes?  I thought
> it didn't.

Yes - though dependent on whether you used mouse or keyboard to select...

With mixed-mouse-keyboard established regions possible (shift-extending 
an initially mouse-selected region has worked for some time, 
mouse-extending an initally keyboard-selected region could be made 
work*), there isn't a clean division either.

So, hence the (still hypothetical) "clipboard-active-regions": it would 
be for people who want the active region consistently put to the 
clipboard whether the selection was established by mouse or keyboard or 
both. People who want mouse to go to the clipboard but not keyboard 
could turn on mouse-drag-copy-region and leave clipboard-active-regions 
turned off.

* You may _think_ it works already (emacs' mouse-3), but currently that 
also side-effects, you can't _just_ mouse-extend the region like other 
apps' shift-mouse-1. (as per some discussion under #6701, though it 
properly belongs in a separate ticket).