From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving X selection? Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:22:24 +0900 Message-ID: <87zlucguv3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <47A80B57.3050402@swipnet.se> <8e24944a0802061957re4baf7cr9560fa3496be56b4@mail.gmail.com> <8e24944a0802070815n18dea273j5c3962235d91ca8e@mail.gmail.com> <87bq6sir34.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8e24944a0802071022i2b259c5fka14f191a3c519157@mail.gmail.com> <8e24944a0802071239r1cdc8affq7875fea0b9876560@mail.gmail.com> <871w7oihml.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8e24944a0802071341t61901a5ucfee5ab9857c3a8b@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202429787 26521 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2008 00:16:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Horsley, Tom" , "Jan D." , Stefan Monnier , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "David De La Harpe Golden" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 08 01:16:49 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 1JNGv2-0008BU-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:16:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNGuZ-0007mZ-HY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:16:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNGuU-0007mD-6N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:16:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNGuT-0007ll-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:16:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNGuT-0007lX-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:16:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNGuM-0005HH-Bj; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC687FFC; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:15:56 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 259301A29E5; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:22:25 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <8e24944a0802071341t61901a5ucfee5ab9857c3a8b@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20071205) XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:88474 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden writes: > Okay, but then you have to be very careful about what > x-select-enable-clipboard (or even a "select-enable-clipboard") > actually denotes IMO: > > By that reading, a logical interpretation of a boolean var called > select-enable-clipboard might be that when t, when text is merely > selected, the clipboard is to be affected, You mean that text would actually be copied to the clipboard? YMMV, but it would never occur to me to interpret it that way. Rather, I would interpret it that when text is selected, the til-then snoozing clipboard gets a light tap on its shoulder "hey, man, wake up, we may have some work for you to do!" (and then again, we may not).