Re: select-active-regions

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:52:20 +0200
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Cc: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>> address@hidden,
>>       address@hidden
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> I have never noticed that problem. It might be because I use Viper and
>> the vi cut, copy and paste operations are structured like the CUA
>> dito. Everyone expect CUA operations to use the clipboard and Viper/vi
>> uses it the same way. It would be quite annoying if that was broken.
>
> This is a misunderstanding: I didn't say copying to clipboard was
> broken.  I said that Emacs on Windows copies text to the clipboard
> very often, and so its (the clipboard's) contents is quite volatile
> when Emacs is around.

Yes, I thought you said that, but I have not noticed it. Maybe because
I am using a subset of the commands for those types of operation.

But then, if it is very volatile because a lot of commands are copying
to it, why not fix that?