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Re: select-active-regions
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David De La Harpe Golden |
Subject: |
Re: select-active-regions |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:15:52 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Not when you use Emacs, which puts text into clipboard on every kill.
Select-active-regions is essentially not intended to be such an
operation though, it quite deliberately avoids placing text on the
kill-ring or clipboard on x11 and ONLY sets primary.
You're muddling mouse-drag-copy-region and select-active-regions I
think. The former affects the kill ring, and typically though not
necessarily, x11 select-active-regions users would actually turn off
mouse-drag-copy-region as what they probably want is:
* keyboard and mouse selection and mouse middle click involves ONLY primary
* keyboard/menu/toolbar kill/kill-ring-save/yank (... cut/copy/paste),
involves ONLY kill-ring_and_clipboard.
Why do they want that? Because it's how quite a lot of other X11 apps
work nowadays, if you assume the kill-ring is analogous to an extended
clipboard (as e.g. cua-mode clearly assumes when it does its binding
trickery). The point was for emacs to optionally (optionally!) support
such behaviour, with the following:
(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
(setq x-select-enable-primary nil)
(setq mouse-drag-copy-region nil)
(setq select-active-regions t)
(global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-primary)
If you also want C-x/C-c/C-v bindings, you of course also turn on cua-mode.
- Re: select-active-regions, (continued)
- Re: select-active-regions, David De La Harpe Golden, 2009/07/19
- Re: select-active-regions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/19
- Re: select-active-regions, Chong Yidong, 2009/07/18
- Re: select-active-regions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/18
- Re: select-active-regions, Chong Yidong, 2009/07/18
- Re: select-active-regions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/18
- Re: select-active-regions,
David De La Harpe Golden <=
- Re: select-active-regions, David De La Harpe Golden, 2009/07/18
- Re: select-active-regions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/18
Re: select-active-regions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/18