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Re: Selection changes in revno 100822
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Selection changes in revno 100822 |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:14:36 -0400 |
> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Cc: Miles Bader <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:05:45 -0400
>
> >> 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.
> >
> > That's something I had in mid, too, so I very much agree.
>
> It's a convincing argument, leaving the issue of efficiency aside for
> the moment. The rule, however, should be something like:
>
> >> If you _change_ a selected region in Emacs (no matter how it was
> >> selected), it's available as the primary.
>
> That's because if you make a selected region in one application, and
> then select some text in a second application, the second application
> grabs primary.
But this is a norm on X, isn't it? Primary selection is ephemeral; if
you want more persistence, you should use the clipboard. Right? Why
should Emacs behave differently?
> Anyway, we can give this a try as the default.
Yes, let's do it!
> Instead of "lazy" setting, we can provide an optional (non-default)
> value of select-active-regions, where only shift-selection and
> mouse-dragging sets primary, while C-SPC + motion does not.
Yes, except that C-SPC+motion _should_ do it when transient-mark-mode
is on (which it is, by default).
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, (continued)
- 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, 2010/08/14
- 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 <=
- 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
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Jan Djärv, 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