Superior Software design and history documentation method Re: Selection changes

Superior Software design and history documentation method Re: Selection changes

[Fren Zeee]

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>    I've changed the way Emacs interacts with the X clipboard and selection,
>    to bring it in line with how other X applications behave.  For most
>    users, the main visible change is that `kill' and `yank' now interact
>    with the clipboard.  One advantage of this change is that the
>    Cut/Copy/Paste menu bar items are just the usual C-w/M-w/C-y commands.
>
> I have a vague recollection that it worked this way long ago and it
> caused problems for users.  That was in the 90s and I don't remember
> details.
>
>
One of the things that is needed most sorely in the field of software
design, esp for "free" software of gnu type is a superior method of software
documentation, of operation and evolution. The above exchange emphatically
underlines this point.

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