From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Selection changes in revno 100822
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:11:16 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lj881xzf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8339ugu7vt.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> From the user's perspective, there are several ways of selecting text:
> with C-SPS (with or without transient-mark-mode), with
> shift-selection, and with the mouse. Let's talk on this level: which
> methods should set the primary and which shouldn't, and why?
* For consistency with other apps which set the primary, it seems that
mouse-drag should set the primary. Shift-select also seems to set the
primary in some other apps (firefox), but I have fewer such apps to try.
* For consistency within Emacs, C-SPC <movement> in transient-mark-mode
should set the primary.
* For C-SPC <movement> _not_ in transient-mark-mode, I think it
_shouldn't_ set the primary, since "selection" in this mode is
visually very distinct from the above types of selection (I don't
think users are likely to be confused by this).
Users _shouldn't have to think very hard about this_, and thus simple
rules are important. In this case I think a good simple rule is:
If you _see_ a selected region in Emacs (no matter how it was
selected), it's available as the primary for pasting in other apps.
-Miles
--
Mayonnaise, n. One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state
religion.
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Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-13 17:05 Selection changes in revno 100822 Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 1:08 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-14 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 8:24 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-14 9:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 12:16 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-14 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 12:35 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-14 13:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 13:23 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-14 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 13:32 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-14 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 0:55 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-08-14 9:46 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-14 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 13:54 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-14 14:31 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-14 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 17:21 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-14 19:04 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-14 22:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 22:33 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-14 22:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 23:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-15 2:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 19:16 ` James Cloos
2010-08-15 13:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-15 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 17:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-15 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 17:48 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-15 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 19:29 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-15 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 23:01 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-16 3:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 3:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-16 5:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 6:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-16 8:11 ` Manoj Srivastava
2010-08-16 8:25 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-16 9:31 ` Manoj Srivastava
2010-08-16 9:50 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-16 11:27 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-16 11:38 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-14 22:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 17:39 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-14 21:52 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-14 22:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 1:11 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2010-08-15 2:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 15:05 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-15 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 2:35 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-16 2:50 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-16 3:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 7:07 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-16 8:57 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-16 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 9:28 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-16 6:53 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-16 7:09 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-16 8:52 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-15 4:48 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-15 5:31 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-15 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 14:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-15 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 17:27 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-15 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 19:50 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-15 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 20:40 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-15 21:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 21:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-15 22:55 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-16 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 16:57 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-15 19:19 ` James Cloos
2010-08-16 11:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-15 4:48 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-15 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 7:19 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-15 8:26 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-15 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-15 10:25 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-15 12:48 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-15 7:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-08-15 9:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 11:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-16 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-16 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-17 2:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-17 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-17 2:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-17 15:12 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-17 15:39 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-17 16:10 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-17 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-17 16:50 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-17 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-17 21:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-17 21:35 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-18 2:12 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-18 22:28 ` James Cloos
2010-08-14 12:28 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-08-14 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 18:49 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-14 18:54 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-14 22:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-14 22:39 ` David De La Harpe Golden
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