From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:47:24 +0200 Message-ID: <838v88hy0j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20130103225809.GC13649@hysteria.proulx.com> <2D113F6751EB4E7F8003DD556B818ED4@us.oracle.com> <83lic9ibww.fsf@gnu.org> <20130104231143.GA18391@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357372049 30695 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2013 07:47:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 07:47:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 08:47:47 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TrOTq-0000KT-Ds for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:47:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47797 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TrOTa-0002SF-NW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:47:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53874) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TrOTV-0002S3-5W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TrOTS-0000UL-TZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:47:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:57294) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TrOTS-0000U6-L6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:47:22 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MG5007006TIJ900@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:47:20 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MG5007BY6YWG1M0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:47:20 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20130104231143.GA18391@hysteria.proulx.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88467 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:11:43 -0700 > From: Bob Proulx > > But X Window applications have always expected dragging mouse-1 to > copy text and mouse-2 to paste text. They still do that, but C-w and M-w in Emacs no longer put text into the primary selection, and so mouse-2 in another application will not paste that text. C-w and M-w now put the text into the clipboard, and it will only be pasted into other applications with C-v etc. > Any change away from that isn't "to conform with modern X > applications" as stated in the NEWS entry. The change is not in mouse gestures, it is in keyboard keys that copy and paste text. These keys now work with the clipboard, not with the primary selection. And _that_ change does track the current behavior of other applications on X. > But the Windows 8 Metro desktop looks to me like an imitation > of the previous phone/tablet systems such as Unity, GNOME3, Android > and iOS. No, it is a gigantic gamble that desktops are no longer relevant; only tablets are. > To wind this thread down let me close by saying that I was stuck. I > had read documentation, NEWS, FAQs and searched. I had tried many > things. I failed. I didn't figure it out. I asked for help. I got > excellent help! Thank you! I was able to configure emacs back to my > liking. I continue to use emacs happily. > > Thanks to all! Happy hacking with Emacs!