Re: mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 21/12/10 19:29, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think I can fix bug#7699

Ho hum*.

> My question is: could switching the order do the wrong thing on X?

I expect so. See discussions under #6635, #6802.  x-get-selection-value 
(or the x-selection-value-internal it calls) is doing the relevant dance 
to get unicode.


*
I do remember a suggestion on my part to revert the rebinding of mouse-2 
but then introduce a customization that controls whether 
mouse-yank-at-click should either call mouse-yank-primary or do its thing.

That would mean a rebinding would be unnecessary to restore old 
behaviour, would just be purely customizations. Frankly I'm not clear 
that Drew (and to a lesser extent yourself) have  absorbed the fact 
rebinding of mouse-2 is presently necessary to restore old behaviour. 
Er. At least, I think it still is. Really I haven't quite caught up to 
the current trunk's state so I might be shooting my mouth off.

Anyway, mutating the new binding of mouse-2 until it acts like a creepy 
zombie version of the old binding seems ...a relatively awkward path to 
take.