From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using the clipboard in development version of Emacs Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:36:18 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87zkvtwhhe.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291867504 3565 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 04:05:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:05:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 05:05:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1PQXkK-0001n8-GG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:04:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47407 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQXkD-0005hP-H2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:04:37 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Injection-Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="EcVcA0U11kL2GXt/NIhLkg"; logging-data="28224"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX185fwju4ZR8iWh4/baPCfA6" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dkmHu0JKAGOjoO8jNQxwLCHIyNg= sha1:whnMQA4gUPU1O0/bz+DO8/W9rIw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181201 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76605 Archived-At: > Hmm, sorry, I should have done more googling first. I am getting the > impression that this is work-in-progress, rather than a stable change. Actually, while some of the implementation details may still change, the behavior you describe is the one sought after. It may seem odd after all these years of using the other behavior, but it is the standard behavior of most other X applications: the PRIMARY selection and the CLIPBOARD are 2 separate entities: the PRIMARY is set via "mouse-1 selection" and used via "mouse-2 paste", and the CLIPBOARD is set/used via things like C-k/C-y or C-x/C-v. Check NEWS (e.g. with C-h N) to see what's changed, and hence how to change back if you prefer the earlier behavior. Stefan