From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mouse paste completely broken
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:44:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4F6F62.7060500@harpegolden.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C4F48CC.3040900@gnu.org>
On 27/07/10 21:59, Sam Steingold wrote:
> the situation is much worse than I first thought.
Emacs kill/yank default interactions with x11 selections on the
development trunk (not the stable branch) were recently changed to [try
to] act like recent x11 apps. So, there are both genuine bugs being
shaken out and intentional behavioural differences to deal with***.
... But there are definitely real problems switching frames/windows with
active regions, what you describe is wrong, certainly from a usefulness
perspective and after accounting for any intentional differences.
A (yes, stupid) workaround is to left click once in window X after
selecting text in that window X before middle clicking in the other
window Y.
I for one do intend to look at this and various issues on the various
gui platforms (x11/ns/w32) in the area that have been made painfully
obvious by the defaults changes, but as usual I don't have much time
until this weekend (it is a long weekend...).
Note that I can replicate similar issues in emacs 23.2, really:
emacs -Q
C-x 3
shift-select "is for notes" in LHS *scratch*. It is highlighted.
C-x o to RHS *scratch*
Everything from the start of "is for notes" to the end of the buffer is
highlighted, because that's where the point was in the other window, and
select-window is "naive" (it just warps to the point saved in the the
window).
A fix for select-active-regions somewhat similar to the zero-length
regions fix proposed approach should certainly be possible - really we
don't want to propagate the active region of a newly switched-to-window
until it "really" changes anew post-restoration.
*** In the meantime, if you just want things the way they were, please
note only defaults were changed, reversion to previous behaviour is
fairly straightforward. Right now, applying the settings below will do
that (unless you used the menu bar cut/copy/paste, in which case they
need to be rebound too):
1. customize group killing:
x-select-enable-clipboard nil ; t on w32.
x-select-enable-primary t ;
select-active-regions nil
2. customize group mouse:
mouse-drag-copy-region t
3. rebind:
(global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-at-click)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-27 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-26 19:46 weird interaction between save-interprogram-paste-before-kill & mouse-autoselect-window Sam Steingold
2010-07-27 20:59 ` mouse paste completely broken Sam Steingold
2010-07-27 23:44 ` David De La Harpe Golden [this message]
2010-07-28 10:03 ` Stephen Berman
2010-08-02 3:20 ` David De La Harpe Golden
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