Re: clipboard/selection: customization vs. rebinding

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 27/06/11 16:59, Chong Yidong wrote:
> David De La Harpe Golden<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > I propose for 24 binding mouse-2 back to mouse-yank-at-click but with
> > the addition of boolean customization to control the precise behaviour
> > to allow the desired fd.o-type behaviour.
>
> It's a tough decision.  It's true that mouse-yank-at-click has fringe
> bindings, so anyone who wants the old behavior would need to rebind
> those too, which is a nuisance.
>
> However, if we introduce a boolean to control mouse-yank-at-click, that
> makes it harder for users to have both mouse yank behaviors available
> (by binding mouse-yank-at-click and mouse-yank-primary to different
> keys)---unless we introduce yet another command that unconditionally
> yanks from the kill ring, which I think is not worth the complication.

Hmm. actually, that command sort of already exists in the form of the 
existing mount-yank-at-click? It really "yanks from the kill-ring" - 
though that process can check the system clipboard and/or primary and 
pushing them onto the kill ring, according to x-select-enable-primary 
and x-select-enable-clipboard.

So just introducing a new mouse-yank-at-click that redirects to one of 
mouse-yank-primary or mouse-yank-last-kill (the old mouse-yank-at-click, 
renamed) depending on a customization, does achieve what I
was proposing.  Though you may still think it too messy / not worth the 
complication.

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