bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:13:50 +0200
> 
> > But that would mean setting the selection each time the user does a
> > C-w or M-w or any other action that pushes text on the kill ring,
> > won't it?
> 
> Isn't that what Emacs has been doing for the last 10 years?

Not as far as I know.  Maybe I was living in some pipe dream, but I
always thought the actual copying happened only when some other
application actually requests the selection.