From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Saving the selection before killing Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:49:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5fmk5pF3bo3fbU1@mid.individual.net> <87hco5xtbv.fsf@jurta.org> <868x9f30fo.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <469DDB7C.4090007@swipnet.se> <469F1673.7040201@swipnet.se> <46A0574B.2010707@swipnet.se> <46A1D1A4.5080402@swipnet.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185068933 19285 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2007 01:48:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:48:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 22 03:48:51 2007 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 1ICQZ1-0004he-Hg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:48:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICQZ1-0005DX-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:48:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICQY1-0004ev-1E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICQXz-0004ce-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:47:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICQXy-0004cH-QV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:47:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ICQXy-0001VW-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:47:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ICQZJ-000319-LN; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:49:09 -0400 In-reply-to: <46A1D1A4.5080402@swipnet.se> (message from =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:28:04 +0200) X-detected-kernel: 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:75271 Archived-At: If I interract with another program before I change to Emacs and do C-y, I'd say close to 100%. If that's true for most users, this proposed feature is likely to be inconvenient. It will be pulling in lots of selections from other apps. The point is to have a way to pull in the selection from some other program even after you've done a kill command in Emacs. This way seems not to be a good idea, so what else can we suggest? We could create a special command that says "yank the selection". That would require remembering something special. Is there any other natural combination that doesn't currently make sense? Here's an idea. M-y after a command that isn't a yank could grab the selection from other programs. Or maybe C-u M-y, which would be less likely to be typed by accident.