From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Selection changes in revno 100822 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:30:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <834oeyv3ww.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxsqyp98.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83zkwptyij.fsf@gnu.org> <4C66660D.3090603@swipnet.se> <83sk2htp82.fsf@gnu.org> <4C66A8C5.4040203@harpegolden.net> <83hbixte8c.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrrs276x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <6ECBD0370E514CF9A796DCE4F366B46F@us.oracle.com> <87r5i02vcr.fsf@tux.homenetwork> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281864718 16638 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2010 09:31:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:31:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 15 11:31:56 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkZYE-00028q-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:31:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50866 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkZXr-00037l-7O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35933 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkZXd-000367-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OkZXc-0001b0-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48475) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OkZXc-0001av-4k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkZXb-0002mu-3V; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:30:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r5i02vcr.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (message from Thierry Volpiatto on Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:22:44 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:128731 Archived-At: > From: Thierry Volpiatto > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:22:44 +0200 > > > David's mail comes close, except that Emacs currently does not behave > > 100% according to what he describes: > > > > clipboards aren't overwritten when you merely select text. > > clipboards are overwritten when you cut/copy (C-x/C-c) > > clipboards are not inserted when you click mouse-2. > > clipboards are inserted when you paste (C-v) > > primary selections are overwritten when you merely select text. > > primary selections are not overwritten when you cut/copy (C-x/C-c) > > (but they've probably already just been overwritten because you > > selected text just before you cut/copied). > > primary selections are inserted when you click mouse-2. > > primary selections are not inserted when you paste (C-v) > > What is described here seem to be with CUA mode activated (C-x/C-c/C-v) > isn't it? :-( It is described in CUA terms, presumably because that's how other apps behave. The intent is to have Emacs behave like that with C-W/M-w and C-y. > So can you describe what yank/kill with defaults setting is actually > supposed to do? The same, see above. P.S. Could you please quote only the relevant parts of the message you are responding to?