Re: clipboard/selection: customization vs. rebinding

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:

> Hmm. actually, that command sort of already exists in the form of the
> existing mount-yank-at-click? It really "yanks from the kill-ring" -
> though that process can check the system clipboard and/or primary and
> pushing them onto the kill ring, according to x-select-enable-primary
> and x-select-enable-clipboard.
>
> So just introducing a new mouse-yank-at-click that redirects to one of
> mouse-yank-primary or mouse-yank-last-kill (the old
> mouse-yank-at-click, renamed) depending on a customization, does
> achieve what I was proposing.  Though you may still think it too messy
> / not worth the complication.

Yeah, I don't think it's worth introducing this additional complication;
now that Stefan introduced mouse--strip-first-event, only one rebinding
is necessary for those users who demand the old behavior.