From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org
Subject: Re: select-active-regions
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:20:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8363dopgqc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6375B5.1090406@harpegolden.net>
> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:36:21 +0100
> From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
> CC: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>, cyd@stupidchicken.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > It's analogous in the sense that killing puts text there and yanking
> > gets text from there.
> >
>
>
> When killing, emacs on X11 places text in
> primary if x-select-enable-primary is t
> clipboard if x-select-enable-clipboard is t
>
> When yanking, emacs on x11 gets text from
> primary if x-select-enable-primary is t
> clipboard if x-select-enable-clipboard is t
Since Windows only has the clipboard, putting and getting text from
there is the best it can do to emulate X in this regard.
> i.e. If I'm used to select-active-regions working without clobbering the
> clipboard on X11, why the holy hell should it clobber the clipboard on
> Windows?
As I explained elsewhere in this thread, Emacs on DOS and Windows
thrashes the clipboard all the time anyway. So anyone using Emacs on
Windows ought to be accustomed to that already. I know I am.
> You've missed the option of having it work as on x11 for emacs-emacs
> interactions (that is _not_ "effectively disabled") but not copying to
> the clipboard.
If we want such an option to be available to non-X platforms, we
should let users customize it in ways that are not specific to X.
What we have now in that area is horribly system-dependent. Introduce
a portable customizable option for separating these two features, and
I'm with you.
> I don't know why, other than the possibility you've
> misunderstood some or all of X11 clipboard, X11 primary, or the purpose
> of select-active-regions.
Well, I did ask for a detailed explanation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-19 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-18 11:20 select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 13:41 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 13:47 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 13:54 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 14:19 ` select-active-regions Chong Yidong
2009-07-18 18:33 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 18:48 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 19:23 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:50 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-19 14:41 ` select-active-regions Jason Rumney
2009-07-19 17:39 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 19:36 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-19 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-07-19 21:52 ` select-active-regions Lennart Borgman
2009-07-20 3:15 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-20 3:20 ` select-active-regions Lennart Borgman
2009-07-20 18:40 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-20 0:22 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-20 3:12 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 18:51 ` select-active-regions Chong Yidong
2009-07-18 19:20 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:37 ` select-active-regions Chong Yidong
2009-07-18 19:45 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 20:15 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 18:45 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-18 19:26 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:10 ` select-active-regions Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 19:30 ` select-active-regions David De La Harpe Golden
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