Re: select-active-regions

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The Windows clipboard is also analogous to the X11 primary selection,
> in that copy/paste work on Windows through the clipboard.
>   
No, it is not analogous to the X11 primary selection, as the X11 primary 
selection does not clobber the clipboard as any emulation of primary 
selections using the clipboard necessarily would.


> Anyway, I'm unconvinced.  The MS-DOS port will copy to the clipboard
> under select-active-regions.  For the w32 build, I'd like to hear
> other maintainers who work on the w32 build, but my opinion is that it
> should do that as well.
>   

IIRC, Emacs on w32 used to emulate primary selections in the way you 
describe, but it triggered many bug reports about Emacs destroying 
clipboard contents when the user selected text in Emacs for reasons 
other than killing or copying the region.