From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working? Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:50:19 -0400 Message-ID: <87hbj6jj7o.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <4C55EF50.3080100@alice.it> <4C5645A1.7000500@harpegolden.net> <87y6coby49.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C572AE6.7070104@harpegolden.net> <87wrs8ohnp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C573A2A.3030007@harpegolden.net> <8762zphkaw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C5B4E28.4090808@harpegolden.net> <87fwyr3glm.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C5C7915.7080407@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281287677 26430 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2010 17:14:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:14:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6774@debbugs.gnu.org, Angelo Graziosi To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 08 19:14:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oi9SD-0006lB-7a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:14:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48334 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oi9SB-0003pT-RD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:14:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47004 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oi9QL-00018e-MS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:12:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ohpgs-0008Ps-O9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:35685) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ohpgs-0008Pg-LL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:08:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhpP8-0001Ug-Px; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:50:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:50:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6774 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6774-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6774.12812105885732 (code B ref 6774); Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6774) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Aug 2010 19:49:48 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhpOu-0001UP-7h for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po18.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.74]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhpOs-0001UK-Hj for 6774@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (173-14-147-246-NewEngland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.14.147.246]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po18.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o77JoLHc010398 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 7 Aug 2010 15:50:21 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E0279C013; Sat, 7 Aug 2010 15:50:19 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4C5C7915.7080407@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:05:25 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:50:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39301 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden writes: > Well, select-active-regions was introduced (though not made default) > rather before the ^-type shift-selection appeared AFAIK. From my > perspective, it would be breaking something that was largely working > as initially intended and (unlike with the general defaults change) > not giving the option of having it work the way it did* anymore (well, > apart from patching it in locally, I'm hardly incapable of doing > that). I've checked in some changes that should (fingers crossed) fix the "empty selection" problem. This also eliminates the use of x-set-selection to buffer variables, as you suggested. Now, Emacs copies strings out explicitly in the command loop and in `deactivate-mark'. I added a new value to `select-active-regions', `lazy' (the default), which means to set the selection only when used, as described in an earlier email. Any other non-nil value gives something similar to the original behavior of select-active-regions.