From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working? Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:19:53 +0200 Message-ID: <4C6038B9.1090508@swipnet.se> 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> <8762zphkaw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C5B4E28.4090808@harpegolden.net> <87fwyr3glm.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C5C7915.7080407@harpegolden.net> <87hbj6jj7o.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C5DE6C7.5080706@harpegolden.net> <87vd7kcx52.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281375572 22451 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2010 17:39:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , 6774@debbugs.gnu.org, Angelo Graziosi To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 09 19:39:28 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 1OiWJl-0005iA-0V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:39:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48609 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiWJY-0007BM-S8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42843 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiWIx-0006pQ-IN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:38:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiWIv-0005QO-Mm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41696) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiWIv-0005QK-LK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiW14-0000ET-GS; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:20:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:20:02 +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=B6774.1281374362871 (code B ref 6774); Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6774) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Aug 2010 17:19:22 +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 1OiW0P-0000E0-Vw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:19:22 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-h31.telenor.se ([213.150.131.4]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiW0H-0000Dt-8c for 6774@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (ipb2.telenor.se [195.54.127.165]) by smtprelay-h31.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57118EB68B for <6774@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:19:54 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.35] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ar44AG3VX0xV4S0jPGdsb2JhbACgRAwBAQEBNS3EPoU6BA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,344,1278280800"; d="scan'208";a="116229711" Original-Received: from c-232de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.35]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 09 Aug 2010 19:19:53 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.13] (zeplin [172.20.199.13]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1AC8E7FA05A; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:19:53 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:20:02 -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:39371 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier skrev 2010-08-09 13.43: >> There's no analogue to the Emacs's ordinary (C-SPC) active regions in >> other programs, and it's not even clear to me that it's good to set the >> primary selection under most circumstances. The original point of >> transient mark mode is to let you mark out a stretch of text to to >> operate on (e.g. comment, or search, or undo), and I don't know if it's >> really correct for us to set the primary selection at the same time. > > Indeed, I don't think it's good to do so. The old behavior of setting > PRIMARY only when killing the text seems like the right behavior. > Why would we want to change that? > Because it would conflict with http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt, and most other X applications set PRIMARY without an explicit kill or copy. And because it is convinient to be able to select text and then paste with middle button in another application. Other applications do have active regions, like gedit and OpenOffice for example. Please don't change this. Jan D.