Re: select-active-regions

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> How about if you explain (in more detail than available in the current
> documentation) what this feature is supposed to do, and which
> use-cases it is supposed to support?  Maybe then I will be able to see
> why my code in pc-win.el is wrong.

In most applications on X, if you shift-select a stretch of text, that
text is copied into PRIMARY, and you can paste it into other
applications with a middle click.  That's what select-active-regions is
supposed to do, except it covers all cases where the text is highlighted
and not just shift selection (e.g., with transient mark mode enabled, if
you do C-SPC and move the cursor to create an active region, the region
should be available as PRIMARY).