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: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:59:41 +0100 Message-ID: <4C6AF83D.1020907@harpegolden.net> References: <4C55EF50.3080100@alice.it> <4C5DE6C7.5080706@harpegolden.net> <87vd7kcx52.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C6038B9.1090508@swipnet.se> <4C615BB9.8030905@swipnet.se> <4C61938B.5080302@swipnet.se> <4C68FBF7.1080104@swipnet.se> <4C6A2393.9030309@swipnet.se> 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 1282079448 24267 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2010 21:10:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, 6774@debbugs.gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 17 23:10:45 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 1OlTQg-0003C1-TX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:10:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlTP9-0004Zi-5r for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58568 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlTOx-0004Y5-Nu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlTOw-0007fL-6i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:08:55 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:50270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlTOw-0007fG-2s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlTFO-0001aO-23; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:59:02 -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: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:59:02 +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=B6774.12820787236089 (code B ref 6774); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:59:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6774) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Aug 2010 20:58:43 +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 1OlTF5-0001aA-0G for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:58:43 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlTF3-0001a5-7Q for 6774@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.55.160] (87-198-55-160.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.55.160]) (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 EDD62683A2; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:59:38 +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: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:59:02 -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:39585 Archived-At: On 17/08/10 13:14, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> They are both equally bad. I think we should add a hook to redisplay >>> that gets called whenever selection is non-zero. Then that hook can >>> do the right thing. >> Why should redisplay concern selection? > > Because the behavior we want is that "if the user has seen the region > highlighted, then it has been selected". I'd be wary doing it in redisplay might do it "too much" just like the old buffer-lazy implementation. Chong Yidong mentioned it on emacs-devel: > It's a convincing argument, leaving the issue of efficiency aside for > the moment. The rule, however, should be something like: >If you _change_ a selected region in Emacs (no matter how it was > selected), it's available as the primary. > That's because if you make a selected region in one application, and > then select some text in a second application, the second application > grabs primary.