From: Tak Kunihiro <tak.kunihiro@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 24945@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: 国広卓也 <tak.kunihiro@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#24945: 25.1; delete-selection-mode
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:11:14 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CB7F5956-FE98-48C1-AFB4-0149387B03C5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k2c4hiev.fsf@gnu.org>
Thank you for replay. I see. It seems I did not understand how it works.
For unknown reason, I used 24.5 with (setq select-enable-primary t); It
is likely that 24.5 just ignores it.
Sorry to bother.
On Nov 16, 2016, at 24:28 , Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:54:23 +0900 (JST)
>> From: Tak Kunihiro <tak.kunihiro@gmail.com>
>> Cc: tak.kunihiro@gmail.com
>>
>> `delete-selection-mode' on 25.1 does not work well when
>> `select-enable-primary' is `t'.
>>
>> 1. runemacs.exe -Q
>> 2. (setq select-enable-primary t)
>> 3. M-x delete-selection-mode
>> 4. select region and kill
>> 5. select other region and yank
>>
>> The region selected by step 5 stays, not replace by yanked text.
>
> Since selecting text in step 5 puts the selected text in the primary
> selection, and thus overwrites the text saved there by the kill in
> step 4, I don't see how it makes sense to set select-enable-primary
> while using delete-selection-mode: these two options contradict each
> other in fundamental ways. On top of that, primary selection doesn't
> really exist on MS-Windows, it's only emulated inside the Emacs
> session, which makes its use even less useful.
>
> IOW, I don't see a bug here.
>
> Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-15 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-15 6:54 bug#24945: 25.1; delete-selection-mode Tak Kunihiro
2016-11-15 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-15 23:11 ` Tak Kunihiro [this message]
2016-11-16 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CB7F5956-FE98-48C1-AFB4-0149387B03C5@gmail.com \
--to=tak.kunihiro@gmail.com \
--cc=24945@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=eliz@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.