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> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:24:30 +0200
> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii ha scritto:
> 
> > ...
> > <cut> _is_ a key, it just doesn't exist on many keyboards.  But some
> > keyboards do have it.
> 
> Ok, I assume the same for <copy>. In any cases it is not very clear and 
> it looks to me incoherent with the other shortcuts,
> 
> Undo  C-_
> Select All  C-x h
> etc...

Perhaps it would be good to modify kill-region so that it behaves like
clipboard-kill-region when invoked from the menu bar.  Then we could
remove clipboard-kill-region from the binding, and the menu will show
what you want.