From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working? Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:26:42 +0100 Message-ID: <4C574622.8000208@harpegolden.net> References: <4C55EF50.3080100@alice.it> <4C5645A1.7000500@harpegolden.net> <87y6coby49.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C572AE6.7070104@harpegolden.net> <87wrs8ohnp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C573A2A.3030007@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280788704 24736 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2010 22:38:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:38:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6774@debbugs.gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 03 00:38:22 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og3eD-0003o8-PM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:38:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59489 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Og3eD-0002kn-8k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57810 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Og3e2-0002hf-1a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:38:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og3e0-0002iR-LS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:38:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og3e0-0002iN-Jr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:38:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og3TK-00036F-3q; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:27:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: David De La Harpe Golden Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:27:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6774 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6774-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6774.128078798211898 (code B ref 6774); Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:27:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6774) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Aug 2010 22:26:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og3Sf-00035r-Se for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og3Se-00035m-DR for 6774@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:26:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.55.208] (87-198-55-208.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.55.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 289D868474; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 23:26:41 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100620 Icedove/3.0.5 In-Reply-To: <4C573A2A.3030007@harpegolden.net> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:27:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39184 Archived-At: ...Oh, guess I went round in a big circle... http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=902#80 > maybe it should be copying and "holding" as a string the selection before a command runs > ... > OTOH, that sounds more complex, and such cases don't seem to arise much (or at all) in practice - at least I haven't noticed them. ... d'oh! I'm certainly becoming concerned these contortions to preserve some laziness may be worse than just accepting a requirement to update a string selection where necessary and its overhead. Humph ...do we have copy-on-write buffers...