bug#24421: 25.1.50; mouse-yank-primary should be bound to down-mouse-2

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Do., 21. Nov. 2019 um 12:42 Uhr schrieb Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>:
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> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Am Mi., 9. Okt. 2019 um 17:49 Uhr schrieb Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>:
> >>
> >> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > At least in all the Gnome apps I've tried, the primary X selection is
> >> > already inserted on the middle mouse button down event, not the up
> >> > event.  Therefore I'd suggest to change the binding of
> >> > mouse-yank-primary from mouse-2 to down-mouse-2.  This might even
> >> > partially solve the Gnome-Terminal issue described in
> >> > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24420.
> >>
> >> I'm not seeing this in Firefox or calibre; the selection is inserted on
> >> the mouse button up event.  xterm does the same.
> >>
> >> What applications did you test?
> >
> > I'll re-check once I have access to a machine with Gnome (in two weeks or 
> > so).
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> That was five weeks ago, so here's a friendly reminder to look into
> this when you find the time.  Thanks in advance.
>

Hmm, I've checked now with GEdit and Gnome Terminal, and both now
paste on mouse up. So maybe the behavior in Gnome has changed? In that
case, we should close the bug.