From: "Ole Laursen" <olau@hardworking.dk>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#1765: Copy/paste inconsistent with other X apps
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:52:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac6fcf750901050452w2d696f5ar288545657e103d5e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LJajN-0007EB-0G@fencepost.gnu.org>
2009/1/4 Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
> However, my Emacs 22.2.1 (started with emacs -Q) is confusing the two.
> If I kill-ring-save "foo", select "bar" with the mouse and yank I get
> "bar" instead of "foo". With the above spec, I should have gotten
> "bar" only if I pressed M-w before yanking.
>
> This is a very useful feature. It means, for instance, that you can use
> C-y in Emacs to insert text that was selected in other apps.
But the thing is that this goes against the defacto standard - and it
is there for good reasons. Standard paste/yank always only inserts
text that was explicitly copied to the clipboard. If you read this
short document
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/ClipboardsWiki
it's very clear on this.
The problem with not following the spec is that text selections are
used for a lot of stuff. If I patiently select a piece of text with
the mouse and press C-c, I expect to be able use that piece of text
later - even if I have selected another piece of text, or just clicked
an input field with automatic text selection.
Imagine having the kill ring filled up with random stuff every time
you press C-space and move the cursor. That's what Emacs is currently
doing with clips from other programs.
--
Ole Laursen
http://people.iola.dk/olau/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-05 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-02 15:41 bug#1765: Copy/paste inconsistent with other X apps Ole Laursen
2009-01-04 21:41 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-05 12:52 ` Ole Laursen [this message]
2009-01-05 13:00 ` Ole Laursen
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2009-01-04 3:33 Chong Yidong
2009-01-04 8:09 ` Sven Joachim
2009-01-04 16:29 ` Ole Laursen
2009-01-05 2:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-05 12:59 ` Ole Laursen
[not found] ` <mailman.3895.1231057410.26697.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-05 12:15 ` Thomas E. Dickey
2009-01-25 23:58 David De La Harpe Golden
2009-08-07 19:31 Ole Laursen
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