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: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:57:04 +0200 Message-ID: <4C68FD60.5050902@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> <8339ugu7vt.fsf@gnu.org> <87lj881xzf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83y6c8shuy.fsf@gnu.org> <87bp93sypi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ocd3s2sl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87mxsnxocu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <83lj87s1da.fsf@gnu.org> <87fwyfxcfk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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 1281949054 31258 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2010 08:57:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:57:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 16 10:57:29 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 1OkvVY-0003IC-Ed for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:57:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51844 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkvVY-0004tX-20 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:57:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43314 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkvVP-0004tQ-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkvVJ-0000Zk-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:57:19 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-h22.telenor.se ([195.54.99.197]:41428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkvVD-0000Yh-6x; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (ipb2.telenor.se [195.54.127.165]) by smtprelay-h22.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBE7E920C; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:57:05 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.35] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvcyAIeZaExV4S0jPGdsb2JhbACHZ5hYDAEBAQE1LblphTsE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,375,1278280800"; d="scan'208";a="118863154" Original-Received: from c-232de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.35]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 16 Aug 2010 10:57:05 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.2] (gaffa [172.20.199.2]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8BB27FA05A; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:57:04 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: <87fwyfxcfk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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:128791 Archived-At: 2010-08-16 09:07, David Kastrup skrev: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >>> From: David Kastrup >>> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:50:25 +0200 >>> >>> Doesn't that imply that merely visibly selecting a region is sufficient >>> for pasting from one Emacs instance to another, but not from one Emacs >>> frame to another of the same Emacs instance? >> >> Pasting with mouse-2 should work inside the Emacs session as it should >> outside it, AFAIU. > > AFAIU, the highlighting in the first frame goes away when you press > mouse-2 in the second frame of the same Emacs session. Since the > highlighting is supposedly connected with the selection, that means the > selection will no longer be taken by Emacs, and the paste will be from > the top of the kill ring. Since the region never was entered into the > killring, the result will appear differently than pasting a highlighted > selection from a different Emacs frame (which does not lose the > selection when doing mouse-2 in a different Emacs session). > > I have not yet compiled the new code, but from the description that > would appear to me to be the case. > This is not so. The selection remains, you just can't see it unless the frame with the selection has focus (on X at least). Two frames on the same Emacs with the same buffer behaves badly w.r.t. the selection, but this is a very old problem. I think it always behaved badly. Jan D.