From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 6956@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6956: 24.0.50; pasting mouse selection in other session pastes only first word
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:02:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8339t9319s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <296F488C207B496D9CA42F4AA0F7C835@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:48:44 -0700
> Cc:
>
> Dunno whether you prefer a new bug report for this or continuing the
> saga within a previous bug report. This is no longer about "No
> primary selection", but picking up from the thread of bug #6689, for
> background:
>
> > > > I still want the ability to select text with the mouse
> > > > and yank it into the same or another Emacs session
> > > > (even another session of another Emacs release -
> > > > in either direction).
> > >
> > > You can have it, if you customize mouse-drag-copy-region to
> > > t, like it was before the changes that broke mouse-2 on Windows.
> >
> > Thanks for the info. Hopefully, when all of the changes are
> > over and done with, and all of the default decisions made,
> > this and any other customizations needed to get back the
> > previous behavior will be documented together (e.g. in NEWS).
> >
> > BTW, the doc string for that option doesn't say much about
> > what it does, at least to me. And the option name doesn't
> > seem terrific either.
>
> Have you actually tried it? No, it does not work, for me at
> least in GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of
> 2010-08-30 on 3249CTO.
>
> Even if I set that option to t in both Emacs sessions (and even if both
> sessions are of this latest build), the entire selection is not pasted.
>
> For each session:
>
> emacs -Q
>
> M-x set-variable mouse-drag-copy-region RET t RET
>
> Select some text (several words) with the mouse using double-click
> mouse-1 on one word then mouse-3 on a later word in the text.
>
> mouse-2 in the same session will correctly paste the complete selection.
> But mouse-2 in the other session pastes only the first word of the
> selection.
Can this bug be closed now? If not, what else needs to be fixed?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-16 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-31 16:48 bug#6956: 24.0.50; pasting mouse selection in other session pastes only first word Drew Adams
2010-08-31 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-31 18:13 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-01 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04 8:35 ` Jan Djärv
2010-09-04 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-04 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04 15:15 ` Jan Djärv
2010-09-04 19:09 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-04 20:35 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-04 21:38 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-05 1:53 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-05 5:33 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-05 14:36 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-05 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-05 4:48 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-05 5:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04 17:06 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-31 18:16 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-16 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-09-16 23:51 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-17 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <3BE2421F73AD4292AE8375CA3328663D@us.oracle.com>
2010-09-17 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-17 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-17 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 18:47 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 20:19 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 20:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 21:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-21 4:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-21 14:20 ` Drew Adams
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