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bug#24945: 25.1; delete-selection-mode
From: |
Tak Kunihiro |
Subject: |
bug#24945: 25.1; delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:11:14 +0900 |
Thank you for replay. I see. It seems I did not understand how it works.
For unknown reason, I used 24.5 with (setq select-enable-primary t); It
is likely that 24.5 just ignores it.
Sorry to bother.
On Nov 16, 2016, at 24:28 , Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:54:23 +0900 (JST)
>> From: Tak Kunihiro <tak.kunihiro@gmail.com>
>> Cc: tak.kunihiro@gmail.com
>>
>> `delete-selection-mode' on 25.1 does not work well when
>> `select-enable-primary' is `t'.
>>
>> 1. runemacs.exe -Q
>> 2. (setq select-enable-primary t)
>> 3. M-x delete-selection-mode
>> 4. select region and kill
>> 5. select other region and yank
>>
>> The region selected by step 5 stays, not replace by yanked text.
>
> Since selecting text in step 5 puts the selected text in the primary
> selection, and thus overwrites the text saved there by the kill in
> step 4, I don't see how it makes sense to set select-enable-primary
> while using delete-selection-mode: these two options contradict each
> other in fundamental ways. On top of that, primary selection doesn't
> really exist on MS-Windows, it's only emulated inside the Emacs
> session, which makes its use even less useful.
>
> IOW, I don't see a bug here.
>
> Thanks.