* Superior Software design and history documentation method Re: Selection changes
@ 2010-07-16 2:53 Fren Zeee
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From: Fren Zeee @ 2010-07-16 2:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rms; +Cc: Chong Yidong, emacs-devel
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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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