From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Selection changes in revno 100822 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:56:33 +0300 Message-ID: <838w46rlpa.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834oeyv3ww.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxsqyp98.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83zkwptyij.fsf@gnu.org> <4C66660D.3090603@swipnet.se> <83sk2htp82.fsf@gnu.org> <4C66A8C5.4040203@harpegolden.net> <83hbixte8c.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrrs276x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83d3tis7qs.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282013983 19171 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2010 02:59:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david@harpegolden.net, cyd@stupidchicken.com, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 17 04:59:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OlCOr-0003zC-OM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:59:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55634 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlCOr-0005Pr-CD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36026 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlCOl-0005Pm-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:59:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlCOj-00027Z-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:43192) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlCOj-00027P-Mb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L7900H00ZYR5A00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:58:34 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.220.100]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L7A00HBZ09K0260@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:58:34 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128810 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:44:28 +0200 > > >> >> > Here is a summary of the current scheme: > >> >> [...] > >> >> > 5. mouse-2 yanks primary. > >> >> Question: how do I yank the primary from the keyboard? > >> >> I used to do that with C-y very happily. > >> > Gotta tinker with x-select-enable-primary, I think. > >> We need a better answer. > > I'm not sure what to make of this remark. > > That I think it needs to be possible to do it from the keyboard, even > with the default settings. With C-y? The fact that C-y doesn't access PRIMARY _was_ the crux of these changes, to make explicit keyboard-initiated paste operation access the clipboard instead.