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RE: emacs24 X primary selection changes
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: emacs24 X primary selection changes |
Date: |
Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:33:50 -0800 |
> In that news entry it says:
> The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
> changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
> commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
> mouse commands use the primary selection.
>
> For me these changes broke my X applications. I guess I am not using
> any application that uses the clipboard. For me the main X
> applications from which I cut text from are Xterm, Firefox, Chromium,
> other random programs but I will ignore Xterm from this discussion
> since it is a venerable old program.
>
> But Firefox and Chromium are both new and cutting text from neither of
> them could be pasted into emacs using C-y unless the suggested return
> to v23 control variable values were made. Therefore that news entry
> seems incorrect with regards to "modern X applications" unless they
> are also arguing that Firefox and Chromium are not modern X
> applications.
Consider filing an Emacs bug report if you think the NEWS entry is incorrect.
- emacs24 X primary selection changes, Bob Proulx, 2013/01/03
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2013/01/03
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Bob Proulx, 2013/01/03
- RE: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Drew Adams, 2013/01/03
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Bob Proulx, 2013/01/03
- RE: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Drew Adams, 2013/01/03
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Bob Proulx, 2013/01/03
- RE: emacs24 X primary selection changes,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Bob Proulx, 2013/01/03
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- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Jason Rumney, 2013/01/03
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Bob Proulx, 2013/01/04
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Yuri Khan, 2013/01/05
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Ken Goldman, 2013/01/07
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- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Jason Rumney, 2013/01/03
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Thomas E. Dickey, 2013/01/04
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Bob Proulx, 2013/01/05
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/01/04
- Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes, Bob Proulx, 2013/01/04