From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
Cc: 12750@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12750: Highlighting text no longer works
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:47:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83objm8ry1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508D5A4D.3020604@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:16:13 -0700
> From: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
>
> For many years, I have selected text and then pasted it where I wanted.
> There is a new feature in emacs: selected text is no longer in the
> pasteable buffer. I must move my hand from the mouse to the keyboard
> to copy the text and then back to the mouse to paste it. This is a bug.
Actually, it's a feature: it was deemed a Good Thing to behave like
the other GUI applications.
> Pending a fix in the next emacs release, how do I work around this problem?
See this entry in NEWS (what you want, if you still do, is at the
end):
** Selection changes.
The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
mouse commands use the primary selection.
In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
*** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
**** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
"ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
**** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
*** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
*** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
*** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
**** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
**** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
between applications.
*** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
**** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
**** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
**** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
**** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
**** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-28 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-28 16:16 bug#12750: Highlighting text no longer works Bruce Korb
2012-10-28 16:32 ` Bruce Korb
2012-10-28 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-10-28 20:14 ` Bruce Korb
2012-10-28 20:57 ` Bruce Korb
2012-10-29 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-29 8:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-29 14:07 ` Bruce Korb
2012-10-29 15:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-29 9:08 ` Chong Yidong
2012-10-29 12:02 ` Bruce Korb
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