Re: Saving the selection before killing

[Jan Djärv]

David Kastrup skrev:

> I don't know the details, though, but it probably was the somewhat
> different case of every Emacs kill command copying stuff to the
> clipboard or so (or some clipboard application milking a selection
> whenever one was available).

Search for klipper in etc/PROBLEMS.  Now this proposal will make Emacs behave 
like a buggy klipper.  Requesting the selection "just for the fun of it" is 
not something Emacs should do.  If the selection in large, Emacs will be slow 
and unresponsive.  The selection may be data Emacs can't handle anyway, such 
as audio data.  If someone makes a big selection in OpenOffice for example, 
Emacs will get the text version of the selection, which in itself is not 
useful, all formatting is lost.  I'd be annoyes to see that in my kill ring.

Please just request selection when the user asks for it.

        Jan D.