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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 14:31:36 +0900

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>> simple rules are important... 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.
>
> I'm not sure I understand you right, but it sounds like you're saying that
> someone who wants to repeatedly paste/yank the same bit of text, whether using
> mouse-2 or C-y, would have to re-activate the region each time before doing 
> so,
> so that it first becomes visible.

No, I'm not saying that.  I'm commenting on how the primary selection
gets set; that shouldn't affect other parts of emacs cut/paste
(e.g. C-y) at all...

-Miles

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