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Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse
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Manoj Srivastava |
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Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse |
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Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:33:08 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) |
On Wed, Jan 26 2011, Miles Bader wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> writes:
>> What I want is the behaviour I think I used to have in Emacs on
>> GNU/Linux X Windows:
>> 1) Whatever text is pasted when I click <down-mouse-2>
>> (mouse-yank-primary?) should be the same thing yanked when I type
>> C-y (yank)
>> 2) Conversely, text that is selected in Emacs, such that it is
>> inserted with a C-y (yank) should also be the text that is pasted
>> into, say, an xterm when I do a middle mouse click in there.
>
> I agree, this was very nice behavior.
>
>> What changes do I need to make to get this?
>
> I've not found a tenable way to simulate the old behavior with the new
> code.
I would say that this is a regression, then. Before the new
code, I never had to worry about primary and secondary selections; and
pasting using a mouse was the same as yanking, and text selected in
Emacs could easily be passed around to other X Windows applications.
Is there a possibility for this regression to be fixed? If I
recall correctly, the new code was supposed to preserve the old
features, and that does not seem to be the case here.
manoj
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- The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse, Manoj Srivastava, 2011/01/26
- Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse, Miles Bader, 2011/01/26
- Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse,
Manoj Srivastava <=
- Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/27
- Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse, David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/01/28