From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working? Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:43:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C55EF50.3080100@alice.it> <4C5645A1.7000500@harpegolden.net> <87y6coby49.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C572AE6.7070104@harpegolden.net> <87wrs8ohnp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C573A2A.3030007@harpegolden.net> <8762zphkaw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C5B4E28.4090808@harpegolden.net> <87fwyr3glm.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C5C7915.7080407@harpegolden.net> <87hbj6jj7o.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C5DE6C7.5080706@harpegolden.net> <87vd7kcx52.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281368342 17516 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2010 15:39:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:39:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6774@debbugs.gnu.org, Angelo Graziosi To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 09 17:38:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1OiURF-0001IB-V8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:38:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52929 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiURF-0008Pv-CF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:38:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55320 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiUQn-0008El-NN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiUQk-0008FI-FZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51912) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiUQk-0008FC-C7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:38:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiUId-0007rb-21; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:30:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6774 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6774-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6774.128136779430203 (code B ref 6774); Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6774) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Aug 2010 15:29:54 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiUIT-0007r3-Pb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm4.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.4]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiUIR-0007qY-KG for 6774@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost4.adm.correo ([10.20.102.125]) by IMPaqm4.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id sD0J1e00D2iL0W23QFWYNC; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:30:32 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.40.4.203]) by IMPmailhost4.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id sFWY1e0044NokFF1kFWY2T; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:30:32 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CACE566140; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:30:31 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87vd7kcx52.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:55:53 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:30:03 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39360 Archived-At: > There's no analogue to the Emacs's ordinary (C-SPC) active regions in > other programs, and it's not even clear to me that it's good to set the > primary selection under most circumstances. The original point of > transient mark mode is to let you mark out a stretch of text to to > operate on (e.g. comment, or search, or undo), and I don't know if it's > really correct for us to set the primary selection at the same time. Indeed, I don't think it's good to do so. The old behavior of setting PRIMARY only when killing the text seems like the right behavior. Why would we want to change that? Stefan