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: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:08:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837hifybzi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CF0748C1AEE24F2D971C98E8F2986CBF@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <6956@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:24:22 -0700
>
> A user in Emacs 20, 21, 22, 23 could have `mouse-drag-copy-region' nil, and thus
> not have mouse selection touch the kill ring - in principle (even if not in
> fact, because of a bug), and yet s?he was still able to select and paste using
> the mouse - between sessions, including sessions with different Emacs versions.
>
> That ability is lost. This is a regression wrt the advertised behavior for Emacs
> 22 through 23 (ever since that user option has existed).
It isn't a regression on Windows, see below. This thread was, at
least for me, only about w32.
> IOW, you seem to be just pointing out that there was an Emacs 22/23 bug here, in
> that `mouse-drag-copy-region' polluted the kill ring even when it was nil.
It's not a bug, it's how mouse selections work in Emacs: text gets to
the clipboard as a side effect of being put on the kill ring. It has
always been like that, at least on Windows, in Emacs 23 and before, as
in Emacs 24.
> Not the intended, advertised behavior, but a buggy behavior.
> `mouse-drag-copy-region' was a no-op option.
That is a completely different issue. mouse-drag-copy-region was not
a no-op only on X, where there's the PRIMARY selection in addition to
the clipboard. Unless users of X are concerned about this change, I'm
not going to be. (Neither do I understand why you should be, except
if you for some reason want to continue a pointless argument just for
the sake of it.)
> That new bug is the one I reported: "pasting mouse selection in
> other session".
That bug is solved, whether you like it or not, in exactly the way you
wanted: by having an option (that fortunately already existed) one
needs to customize.
And that is the last time I'm speaking on this bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-21 4:08 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
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 [this message]
2010-09-21 14:20 ` Drew Adams
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