From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc. Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:47:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <19651.37838.815906.240014@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287949662 30656 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2010 19:47:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:47:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 21:47:40 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 1PA6Xc-0002ZF-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:47:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PA6Xb-0005dD-Ll for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55269 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PA6XV-0005d8-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PA6XU-0000tY-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:47:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:34037) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PA6XU-0000tU-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PA6XU-0002lv-5s; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:47:32 -0400 X-Spook: tempest MD5 Audiotel investigation Ermes security X-Ran: Pmh{OZl<>z*/~1kWb<@Rfw1n0wq3%'u-&%a6c|DDWmC=D8#rmMNxp(bhheWTF61O!P_b@e X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun\, 24 Oct 2010 03\:55\:05 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:132062 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > When I revived the MS-DOS port 2 years ago, I had a good reason not to > load common-win.el. I tried, and it caused trouble, so I removed it > from loadup.el and left behind a comment (which admittedly lacks > details). It was a helpful comment. More than the nextstep port has. > I could try that again, if it's important, and report the problems > it causes, if any are left. I don't think it is important. > That said, I don't understand why selection-related stuff belongs to > *-win.el. It has nothing to do with window systems; it's quite > possible that text terminals will be able to access selections (and I > understand some of them already do). What will we do then--load > common-win.el on a tty as well? All this term/ stuff seems like a big mess. > So how about finding a better home for that stuff? Like frame.el or > mouse.el, for example? Sounds like a good idea.