From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: select-active-regions, Emacs not X Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:53 +0900 Message-ID: References: <4C7BA0A2.9030602@easy-emacs.de> <87sk1wdw0y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C7BE2FA.6080003@easy-emacs.de> <87fwxwxau7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C7BFC0A.1060806@online.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283242263 22683 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2010 08:11:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:11:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 31 10:11:01 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 1OqLvk-0001BQ-0f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:10:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46508 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqLu2-0006TN-Ij for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51583 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqLtu-0006S4-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqLtt-0000Dm-1E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]:62789) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqLtr-0000DJ-4L; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:08:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate3.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.160]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o7V88vxm024665; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:57 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate3.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id o7V88uq20565; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:56 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay51.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.60]) by vgate01.nec.co.jp (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7V86eN6004558; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:56 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay51.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:56 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.114.222] [10.114.114.222]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:55 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 80E6452E1B8; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:54 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <4C7BFC0A.1060806@online.de> ("Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hle?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?r=22's?= message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:44:26 +0200") Original-Lines: 25 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:129480 Archived-At: Andreas R=F6hler writes: > IMHO pure cursor move should not send the region to clipboard per default. > OTOH that seems a useful feature for mouse-regions If you don't have the tmm region activated, cursor movement shouldn't affect the selection. If you _do_ have the tmm region activated, on the other hand, updating the region via cursor movement _should_ affect the selection, because that's what the X selection is: roughly speaking it's the "latest highlighted thing". There should be no difference between "tmm-keyboard-regions" and "mouse-regions" -- they are both methods of selecting text, and both look the same and behave very similarly in most other ways; to make mouse regions "special" would simply confuse the user and disadvantage keyboard users. Note that other apps (e.g., I tested firefox and chromium) also work this way: updating a region of selected text with the keyboard sets the X selection. -Miles --=20 The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. [Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964]