From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: clipboard/selection: customization vs. rebinding Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:59:48 -0400 Message-ID: <87d3hz5kp7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <4E07A0DB.7030503@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309196369 6936 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2011 17:39:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:39:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 19:39:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QbFmN-0001G9-PZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:39:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50688 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QbFmM-0007Y0-E4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:39:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33320) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QbEE5-0006QG-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QbEE3-0003HT-8C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.143]:48786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QbEE2-0003HP-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014060.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.60]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5RFxmwZ008543 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:59:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E07A0DB.7030503@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:12:59 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.143 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.143 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141080 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden writes: > I propose for 24 binding mouse-2 back to mouse-yank-at-click but with > the addition of boolean customization to control the precise behaviour > to allow the desired fd.o-type behaviour. It's a tough decision. It's true that mouse-yank-at-click has fringe bindings, so anyone who wants the old behavior would need to rebind those too, which is a nuisance. However, if we introduce a boolean to control mouse-yank-at-click, that makes it harder for users to have both mouse yank behaviors available (by binding mouse-yank-at-click and mouse-yank-primary to different keys)---unless we introduce yet another command that unconditionally yanks from the kill ring, which I think is not worth the complication. All in all, I think it's better to change the fringe bindings to mouse-yank-primary. For those users who are set on the old behavior, the minor inconvenience of adding a few extra key bindings is regrettable but not worth making the proposed change.