From: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 12750@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12750: Highlighting text no longer works
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:14:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKRnqN+_YOUzGkiWShKwZgw3dxFWM=rKqrnf2kwGGR=FLekkpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83objm8ry1.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Eli,
Thank you.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Actually, it's a feature: it was deemed a Good Thing to behave like
> the other GUI applications.
[...]
> See this entry in NEWS (what you want, if you still do, is at the
> end):
It is quite inconvenient to switch stuff like this without more readily
apparent announcements. Folks like me do not ever deliberately
update things, so we don't go reading "NEWS" of the 100+ things
that get updated automatically.
> ** Selection changes.
>
> The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
> changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
> commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
> mouse commands use the primary selection.
Sounds like the mouse ought to be using the clipboard to me.
Using separate mechanisms is clumsy. This may explain why
I have so much difficulty pasting stuff into a Chrome buffer.
I think they must have it confused and wrong, too.
Seems to work okay in Firefox. For Chrome, I often must go figure out
where in heck the "edit"->"select" thingy is and go through that menu
operation in order to be able to paste my text.
The separation was not well considered. (expletives elided.)
> In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
> list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
The "modern" approach is brain damaged, so, yes, I prefer it.
> *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
>
> **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
> **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
> **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
> **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
> **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
It is really helpful to have explicit instructions:
*** To return to the previous behavior, add the following to your .emacs file:
(setq select-active-regions nil)
(setq mouse-drag-copy-region 't)
(setq x-select-enable-primary 't)
(setq x-select-enable-clipboard nil)
(global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-at-click)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-28 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-28 16:16 bug#12750: Highlighting text no longer works Bruce Korb
2012-10-28 16:32 ` Bruce Korb
2012-10-28 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-28 20:14 ` Bruce Korb [this message]
2012-10-28 20:57 ` Bruce Korb
2012-10-29 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-29 8:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-29 14:07 ` Bruce Korb
2012-10-29 15:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-29 9:08 ` Chong Yidong
2012-10-29 12:02 ` Bruce Korb
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