From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Noah Friedman <noah@splode.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Don't change `select-enable-primary` (was: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard)
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:50:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzgn223h7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871r0ehl3f.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:17:40 +0800")
> It's not related. Here I'm trying to convince people to not enable
> `select-enable-primary' lightly, since that breaks other programs.
Then please change the title.
Is there a particular reason you care what people do with their
`select-enable-primary`? E.g are you hoping to remove this var in some
(more or less distant) future because it would allow some important
simplification or performance improvement?
> There seems to be a lot of bad advice floating around, and that's one
> of them.
Indeed there is. I tend to focus on those that affect more than just
the people who follow that advice.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-07 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-06 3:39 recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard Noah Friedman
2022-02-06 7:37 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 9:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-06 9:34 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 10:18 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 16:09 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07 1:11 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 2:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07 2:59 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 5:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07 5:17 ` Yuri Khan
2022-02-07 5:23 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-07 5:31 ` Po Lu
2022-02-06 22:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07 1:12 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 2:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07 3:11 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 3:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07 3:48 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 4:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07 4:44 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 4:57 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-07 5:29 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 5:47 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-07 5:52 ` tomas
2022-02-07 6:43 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 6:57 ` tomas
2022-02-07 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-07 13:18 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-07 12:56 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-07 13:17 ` Po Lu
2022-02-07 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-02-07 13:55 ` Don't change `select-enable-primary` Po Lu
2022-02-07 1:11 ` recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard Tim Cross
2022-02-07 2:31 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2022-02-06 9:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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