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Re: Improving X selection?
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David De La Harpe Golden |
Subject: |
Re: Improving X selection? |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:41:50 +0000 |
On 07/02/2008, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
> David De La Harpe Golden writes:
>
> > I thought of that, but wanted to avoid "select" because of its X11
> > usage: that which is cut is also a selection in X11 terms.
>
> Well, yes, you can't cut without selection, but I've never heard
> "select" used to mean "cut". A selection is just a region of a
> window, which can be deleted, cut, copied (with or without
> translation) or replaced as a single unit.
>
> +1 for "select" rather than "highlight", and for "insert" as opposed
> to "lightins".
>
Okay, but then you have to be very careful about what
x-select-enable-clipboard (or even a "select-enable-clipboard")
actually denotes IMO:
By that reading, a logical interpretation of a boolean var called
select-enable-clipboard might be that when t, when text is merely
selected, the clipboard is to be affected, and not the current meaning
(that is: whether the X11 CLIPBOARD selection should be affected or
consulted in various kill/yank/select operations!).
Thus, this patch's x-select-enable-clipboard if named for clarity rather than
backward-compatibility would be called something like
"enable-clipboard-for", taking a list of one or more of :cut, :paste,
:select and :insert. (or kill, yank, select and insert)
- Re: Improving X selection?, (continued)
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Miles Bader, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?,
David De La Harpe Golden <=
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- OT [was Re: Improving X selection?], Tom Horsley, 2008/02/08
- Re: OT [was Re: Improving X selection?], David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/08
- Re: OT, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/08
- Re: OT, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/08
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/08
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/08