From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tak Kunihiro <tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp>
Cc: 27530@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27530: patch to cut and copy secondary
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 19:04:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9qn24py.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170906.124252.919138792281853431.tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> (message from Tak Kunihiro on Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:42:52 +0900 (JST))
> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:42:52 +0900 (JST)
> Cc: 27530@debbugs.gnu.org, tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp
> From: Tak Kunihiro <tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp>
>
> >>> In Emacs 24, we have changed how selection works to conform with
> >>> other modern X applications, by having primary selection set only
> >>> via mouse gestures, whereas keyboard commands work with the
> >>> clipboard. Doesn't your proposal go in the opposite direction?
> >>
> >> I see. I wonder if the direction lets the secondary selection
> >> react with region-reacting functions such for comment-dwim.
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand this comment. Can you elaborate?
>
> I often want to comment out text with mouse-secondary-overlay.
>
> I meant if `mouse-secondary-overlay -> region' direction is not
> supported, text with mouse-secondary-overlay cannot be commented out
> until I select the text again as region. I thought it is good to
> avoid redundant operation if possible.
If we want a function that will put region around secondary selection,
why not write such a function, and let users who want to code commands
that use this functionality do that? IOW, why do we have to come up
with a command to do something which we aren't sure is a frequent use
case?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-06 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-29 12:43 bug#27530: patch to cut and copy secondary Tak Kunihiro
2017-06-29 13:41 ` Drew Adams
2017-07-01 0:45 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-08-01 1:35 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-05 3:11 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-05 7:51 ` Robert Pluim
2017-09-05 9:25 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-05 9:32 ` Robert Pluim
2017-09-05 12:22 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-05 13:53 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-05 23:17 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-06 0:29 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-05 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-05 23:06 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-06 2:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-06 3:42 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-06 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-09-07 12:35 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-07 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-07 23:02 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-08 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 3:01 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-11 2:03 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-20 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-20 12:39 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-09-21 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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