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: Selection changes Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:28:02 -0400 Message-ID: <87tyo1olkd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87ocea2ax1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hbk1yigj.fsf@siav.hodique.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279139357 2071 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2010 20:29:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:29:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yann Hodique Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 14 22:29:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OZ8Zv-0000vs-Ie for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:29:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZ8Zu-0002FT-Ue for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56964 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZ8Yo-0001OD-HU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZ8Ym-0001y2-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po18.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.74]:44937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZ8Ym-0001xm-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014221.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.221]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po18.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o6EKS2fm006941 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 511BEC011; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:28:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87hbk1yigj.fsf@siav.hodique.info> (Yann Hodique's message of "Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:25:00 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127317 Archived-At: Yann Hodique writes: > I'm a bit confused by those changes. I used to have > > (setq mouse-drag-copy-region nil) > (mouse-sel-mode 1) > > and was pretty happy with the behavior. Now it seems I cannot retrieve > the same behavior as `mouse-sel-mode' is apparently broken > ("mouse-sel-selection-overlay: No overlay corresponding to PRIMARY > selection" whenever I try to select something). Which forces me to (setq > mouse-drag-copy-region t) to be able to select with the mouse, but this > in turn pollutes my kill-ring... I think mouse-sel-mode was somewhat bitrotted even prior to this change. I will take a look over the next few days.