From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Selection changes in revno 100822 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:25:04 +0200 Message-ID: <4C67C080.1010909@swipnet.se> References: <834oeyv3ww.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxsqyp98.fsf@stupidchicken.com><83zkwptyij.fsf@gnu.org> <4C66660D.3090603@swipnet.se><83sk2htp82.fsf@gnu.org> <4C66A8C5.4040203@harpegolden.net><83hbixte8c.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrrs276x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <6ECBD0370E514CF9A796DCE4F366B46F@us.oracle.com> <4C6794ED.50705@swipnet.se> 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 1281867929 25767 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2010 10:25:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:25:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 15 12:25:28 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OkaP5-00055v-EI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:25:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51645 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkaP4-0000Nv-FZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44778 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkaOs-0000Ml-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkaOr-0002Fm-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-b12.telenor.se ([62.127.194.21]:47542) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkaOp-0002FU-QZ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:25:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (ipb2.telenor.se [195.54.127.165]) by smtprelay-b12.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id A613DE9EC0; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:25:06 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.35] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhAzAFpdZ0xV4S0jPGdsb2JhbACHZ5hjDAEBAQE1LbgKhTsE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,371,1278280800"; d="scan'208";a="118514098" Original-Received: from c-232de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.35]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 15 Aug 2010 12:25:06 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.13] (zeplin [172.20.199.13]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C21367FA05A; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:25:05 +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-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128734 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-08-15 11.27: > I must say that once mouse-2 is no longer a synonym to "yank" it > became a tad harder to explain what one means. Is there a widely > accepted term for what mouse-2 does in this context? The spec > everybody seem to quote still calls this "paste", so if there's no > better term, we will have to get used to saying "paste from PRIMARY", > "paste from CLIPBOARD", etc. And, of course, there's the > Emacs-specific gripe that only one of them is no a synonym to "yank". "Paste the current selection" perhaps? It is not technically correct, a program can set PRIMARY without using selections, but it is close enough. Jan D.