From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: highlight with mouse then shouldn't need kill-ring-save? Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:34:55 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87hdl42khp.fsf@jidanni.org> <200501280341.j0S3fk026612@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106913409 15153 80.91.229.6 (28 Jan 2005 11:56:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:56:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 28 12:56:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CuUjy-0003XA-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:56:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CuUwO-0008LY-2I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 07:09:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CuUu2-0007jG-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 07:07:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CuUu0-0007iE-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 07:07:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CuUtz-0007gL-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 07:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CuUP2-0002AP-7i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CuUMj-0003vM-KD; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:32:42 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200501280341.j0S3fk026612@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:41:46 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32604 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32604 Luc Teirlinck writes: > Richard Stallman wrote: > > Perhaps it would be good in transient mark mode > to set things up so that when the mark is active, > the region is available as a selection. > > The problem here is that if you use transient-mark-mode (I do) then > you activate the region often, for a variety of reasons, mostly > unrelated to the kill ring. So if each time the active region got > copied to the kill ring, then the kill ring could easily get clobbered > with unwanted entries. You can do M-w if you want to put the region > in the kill ring. Making the region available as a selection does not mean copying it to the kill ring. IIRC, selections are somewhat of a handshake process, so it should even be possible to copy the transient region to the kill ring _only_ when it has been used as an X selection. I don't know whether such a behavior would be useful. Providing a transient region as an X selection would appear independently useful, and normally what people would expect. I don't think that one needs to touch the kill ring for that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum