From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Joachim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On cut, copy, paste etc... Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:52:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87vdykravs.fsf@gmx.de> References: <4892D6AC.6000308@alice.it> <4892E5EA.9070200@alice.it> <4893007E.1020502@alice.it> <87myjw7qcy.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217606294 12920 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 15:58:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:58:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 01 17:59:02 2008 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 4.50) id 1KOx1k-0001Si-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:58:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60867 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOx0q-00079t-KI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOx0j-00075B-AV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOx0h-00070J-Iv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:57:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46690 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOx0h-000702-Ab for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:40401) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOx0g-0007If-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Aug 2008 15:57:41 -0000 Original-Received: from p54864A3E.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO debian) [84.134.74.62] by mail.gmx.net (mp015) with SMTP; 01 Aug 2008 17:57:41 +0200 X-Authenticated: #28250155 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19Fg6I4mMBFMyaeN6Dm4DHEzZACNFPQ3gLs6uDi+d VrJQrUyGm0e9vp In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:26:36 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.71 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:101902 Archived-At: On 2008-08-01 17:26 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Did you look at the code of clipboard-kill-region? It does little > besides calling kill-region. Yes, I looked at it. >> And as nearly every other modern application uses the clipboard for >> copy'n paste keyboard shortcuts, Emacs not doing this by default will >> irritate novice users anyway. > > Sorry, I'm not following: what is it that Emacs doesn't do by default, > or won't be doing under my suggestion? It doesn't use the clipboard for kill-region, yank and friends. Under X, that is; the Windows default is different. Sven