From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Enrico Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs 24: select-active-regions behavior Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:56:50 +0200 Message-ID: <871ultjx4d.fsf@sheridan.bigo.ensc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338931823 4003 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2012 21:30:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 21:30:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 05 23:30:22 2012 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 1Sc1KX-0003BM-Th for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:30:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc1KX-0006Cw-F3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54727) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc1KS-0006Cr-7D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:30:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc1KM-0001JU-Ph for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44941) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc1KM-0001JH-JK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc1KF-0002Zp-NS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from p54adf2ac.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.173.242.172]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from enrico.scholz by p54adf2ac.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:30:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54adf2ac.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.97 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:M8RANsmWf/8AOrk45e2EiFZVSHs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:85121 Archived-At: Hello, after upgrading from Emacs-23 with pc-select-mode to Emacs-24 with its builtin selection mode, I noticed some regressions. Now with Emacs-24, a region which is selected by shift- replaces the primary selection. But with Emacs-23 I was able to: 1. copy something (select it + C-Ins), 2. shift-select another piece of text and 3. replace this piece of text by Shift-Ins with the text from 1. With Emacs-24 this is a noop because text from 2. will be inserted into the primary selection and replaces itself in 3. I was partly successful to restore old behavior by setting select-active-regions to nil. Unfortunately, this breaks selection by mouse. E.g. with Emacs-23 I could double/triple click in a text and paste it by middle click into another window. Now with Emacs-24, I have to copy it explicitly with C-Ins which is non-intuitive and breaks usual X11 semantics. Hence: is there a way to configure Emacs-24 so that: a) shift-select does not replace primary selection (e.g. as when using C-Space selection), and b) a double/triple mouse click replaces the primary selection? Enrico