bug#24421: 25.1.50; mouse-yank-primary should be bound to down-mouse-2

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Fr., 29. Nov. 2019 um 13:42 Uhr schrieb Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>:
>
> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Nope, it hasn't. It's just that the middle button of my touchpad
> > generates they KeyPress event on key release (!). With a different
> > mouse the behavior is as described: In GEdit and Gnome Terminal,
> > pasting happens on key press; in Emacs it happens on key release.
>
> My mouse generates KeyPress event when I click the middle mouse
> button, and the KeyRelease event when I release it.  X applications
> paste on KeyRelease here.  So I'm not sure what is going on here.

For the touchpad it's just a driver/hardware issue, nothing specific to Emacs.
Which GTK+ application did you check? As said, at least for me GEdit
and Gnome Terminal consistently paste on key press.

>
> What does xev say happens when you click the mouse button in the
> second case?

IIRC it was as I described: KeyPress event on pressing the button,
KeyRelease when releasing it.