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Re: Selection changes in revno 100822
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Selection changes in revno 100822 |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:11:16 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> From the user's perspective, there are several ways of selecting text:
> with C-SPS (with or without transient-mark-mode), with
> shift-selection, and with the mouse. Let's talk on this level: which
> methods should set the primary and which shouldn't, and why?
* For consistency with other apps which set the primary, it seems that
mouse-drag should set the primary. Shift-select also seems to set the
primary in some other apps (firefox), but I have fewer such apps to try.
* For consistency within Emacs, C-SPC <movement> in transient-mark-mode
should set the primary.
* For C-SPC <movement> _not_ in transient-mark-mode, I think it
_shouldn't_ set the primary, since "selection" in this mode is
visually very distinct from the above types of selection (I don't
think users are likely to be confused by this).
Users _shouldn't have to think very hard about this_, and thus simple
rules are important. In this case I think a good simple rule is:
If you _see_ a selected region in Emacs (no matter how it was
selected), it's available as the primary for pasting in other apps.
-Miles
--
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religion.
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, (continued)
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Manoj Srivastava, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Miles Bader, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Manoj Srivastava, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Miles Bader, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David Kastrup, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/14
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/14
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Chong Yidong, 2010/08/14
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/14
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/14
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Chong Yidong, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Chong Yidong, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David Kastrup, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David Kastrup, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Miles Bader, 2010/08/16