From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: References: <20220205193944.836651.FMU2130669@unexploded-cow.prv.splode.com> <87o83kphri.fsf@yahoo.com> <87sfsv62nf.fsf@gnus.org> <87fsovmqd9.fsf@yahoo.com> <87leynz8th.fsf@gnus.org> <87leynjrpv.fsf@yahoo.com> <87h79bz6kb.fsf@gnus.org> <87a6f3jq02.fsf@yahoo.com> <871r0ehl3f.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18706"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , Noah Friedman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 07 15:22:11 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nH4uA-0004aF-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2022 15:22:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40668 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nH4u6-0001ix-Ej for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:22:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nH4QF-0006z8-3a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:51:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:26448) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nH4Q0-0007do-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:51:14 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 09F0E10018C; Mon, 7 Feb 2022 08:50:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 9417510009E; Mon, 7 Feb 2022 08:50:43 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1644241843; bh=u8BoftMiZQ2RhZ5HU8eHr6DCuTHgzqwyqQrAMChlI+0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=W4PBuB7a1OScoJnhChqZJdklcvndapTmN51/msrbU56TiDK/iDbq8l2PQkVSZKvIx oUrOTNmL9plykUansSiDR/swe12Ir9tcnSajG4MRsAIMhXuO1Yokep8/HgflD5AtL0 jW9v71NfDar+CcG5yCzgy1gx6vuxkOMtYhBrL9prLQ+7xrd4F4jvDpBPcQFJyoM5Wt 6aZyFw24TdzZOqZxlOtZTTHenaDzkz7TW61KwCo9Y058xD0ULMwDJPl7Jrgi/VlFzq t2SUBBPF58MwHYE8P4Dl52inoPNsncJxTUoFPIlmQ7zWgcsY2jS9TzPEHjWFdxZdCf YdXrptw3lgolA== Original-Received: from pastel (76-10-138-212.dsl.teksavvy.com [76.10.138.212]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5851A12031C; Mon, 7 Feb 2022 08:50:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <871r0ehl3f.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:17:40 +0800") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286049 Archived-At: > 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