Re: Selection changes

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> I don't like things that make selections magic depending on how they
> were selected; it just makes the interface more confusing and
> discourages people from learning new commands.
>
> A selection should be a selection, to the greatest extent possible
> (there are some exceptions, like shift-selections auto-deselecting, but
> that's much less confusing because it's an immediate and visually
> obvious effect, and fits people's shift-select muscle-memory).

A valid point.  We can give the current system a shot; if ordinary
active regions grabbing the primary selection turns out not to be a
nuisance in practice, that is fine.