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: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:09:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83k4nrs16l.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> <8339ugu7vt.fsf@gnu.org> <87lj881xzf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <871va0rmzp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4C682389.8030807@harpegolden.net> <83vd7bsqn6.fsf@gnu.org> <4C6844FF.80602@harpegolden.net> <83pqxjsk6m.fsf@gnu.org> <4C6850C3.2030508@harpegolden.net> <83ocd3shp1.fsf@gnu.org> <4C685F60.5080005@harpegolden.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281928327 9792 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2010 03:12:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 16 05:12:05 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 1Okq7H-0007V8-PU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:12:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34881 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Okq7H-0002Sy-62 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37289 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Okq7B-0002Sf-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:11:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Okq7A-0001L5-5L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:46499) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Okq79-0001Kz-VB; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:11:56 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L7800H00668S600@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:11:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.220.100]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L7800GU967UMXW0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:11:55 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4C685F60.5080005@harpegolden.net> 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:128773 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:42:56 +0100 > From: David De La Harpe Golden > CC: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org > > On 15/08/10 22:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > >>> What happens on X when you type > >>> C-y after mouse-2? > >> > >> You get a clipboard/kill-ring yank. > > > > That's identical to what you get on w32 with my change. > > Um. Copy some text in notepad.exe, then hit mouse-2 in emacs.exe, then > C-y, hopefully you'll see the problem. Or maybe you'll decide it's a > feature. It's a consequence of the fact that there's only one interprogram selection on Windows. No matter how hard we try, we cannot get 100% compatibility with X here, only come close. What you describe matches my expectations for Windows. Maybe that's just me; time will tell.