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Re: select-active-regions
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: select-active-regions |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:20:27 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:36:21 +0100
> From: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>
> CC: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > It's analogous in the sense that killing puts text there and yanking
> > gets text from there.
> >
>
>
> When killing, emacs on X11 places text in
> primary if x-select-enable-primary is t
> clipboard if x-select-enable-clipboard is t
>
> When yanking, emacs on x11 gets text from
> primary if x-select-enable-primary is t
> clipboard if x-select-enable-clipboard is t
Since Windows only has the clipboard, putting and getting text from
there is the best it can do to emulate X in this regard.
> i.e. If I'm used to select-active-regions working without clobbering the
> clipboard on X11, why the holy hell should it clobber the clipboard on
> Windows?
As I explained elsewhere in this thread, Emacs on DOS and Windows
thrashes the clipboard all the time anyway. So anyone using Emacs on
Windows ought to be accustomed to that already. I know I am.
> You've missed the option of having it work as on x11 for emacs-emacs
> interactions (that is _not_ "effectively disabled") but not copying to
> the clipboard.
If we want such an option to be available to non-X platforms, we
should let users customize it in ways that are not specific to X.
What we have now in that area is horribly system-dependent. Introduce
a portable customizable option for separating these two features, and
I'm with you.
> I don't know why, other than the possibility you've
> misunderstood some or all of X11 clipboard, X11 primary, or the purpose
> of select-active-regions.
Well, I did ask for a detailed explanation.
- Re: select-active-regions, (continued)
- 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, Chong Yidong, 2009/07/18
- Re: select-active-regions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/18
- 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, David De La Harpe Golden, 2009/07/18
- Re: select-active-regions, Jason Rumney, 2009/07/19
- Re: select-active-regions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/19
- Re: select-active-regions, David De La Harpe Golden, 2009/07/19
- Re: select-active-regions,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: select-active-regions, Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/19
- Re: select-active-regions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/19
- Re: select-active-regions, Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/19
- Re: select-active-regions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/20
- 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