From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it
Subject: Re: On cut, copy, paste etc...
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:23:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk5f0mw63.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdykravs.fsf@gmx.de>
> From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
> Cc: angelo.graziosi@alice.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:52:07 +0200
>
> >> And as nearly every other modern application uses the clipboard for
> >> copy'n paste keyboard shortcuts, Emacs not doing this by default will
> >> irritate novice users anyway.
> >
> > Sorry, I'm not following: what is it that Emacs doesn't do by default,
> > or won't be doing under my suggestion?
>
> It doesn't use the clipboard for kill-region, yank and friends. Under
> X, that is; the Windows default is different.
Do you mean literally the clipboard (as opposed to X selection, that
is)? Because C-w does set the X selection, and yank does look at the
X selection. Isn't that what other GUI applications do on X?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-01 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 9:26 On cut, copy, paste etc Angelo Graziosi
2008-08-01 9:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01 9:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-01 10:31 ` Angelo Graziosi
2008-08-01 10:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-01 12:24 ` Angelo Graziosi
2008-08-01 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-01 14:38 ` Sven Joachim
2008-08-01 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-01 15:52 ` Sven Joachim
2008-08-01 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-08-01 19:01 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-01 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-01 19:53 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-16 9:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-08-01 20:30 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-02 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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