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Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard
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Po Lu |
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Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard |
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Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:17:40 +0800 |
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Some of those specs talk about interaction with other programs, in
> which case we should arguably follow them to be good neighbors. But
> other parts talk about the UI and only affect the contract between the
> application and the user. We have no obligation to follow those
> parts, tho of course it might make a lot of sense to make the default
> behavior follow those specs to avoid surprising the user.
>
> The change under discussion here was motivated by an optimization, so
> presumably it should not affect the interface between the user and
> Emacs, but only between Emacs and the system. So IIUC this is a part
> where the spec is indeed very relevant and we should strive to follow
> it. But I must say I don't know which part of the spec the change is
> related to. Could you clarify?
It's not related. Here I'm trying to convince people to not enable
`select-enable-primary' lightly, since that breaks other programs.
There seems to be a lot of bad advice floating around, and that's one of
them.
> These seem to only affect the contract between the user and Emacs, so if
> the users change them to their default, that can only hurt themselves.
>
> And AFAICT our default settings don't violate those parts 3, 4, and 5,
> so we're fine.
>
> And of course I still can't see in which way this relates to
> commit 99c637499e.
It doesn't relate, but I thought you were referring to the choice of
selection in the message I replied to earlier.
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, (continued)
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, Po Lu, 2022/02/07
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, Corwin Brust, 2022/02/07
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, tomas, 2022/02/07
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, Po Lu, 2022/02/07
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, tomas, 2022/02/07
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/07
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, Po Lu, 2022/02/07
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/07
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, Po Lu, 2022/02/07
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, Stefan Monnier, 2022/02/07
- Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard,
Po Lu <=
- Don't change `select-enable-primary` (was: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard), Stefan Monnier, 2022/02/07
- Re: Don't change `select-enable-primary`, Po Lu, 2022/02/07
Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, Tim Cross, 2022/02/06
Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/06
Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard, xenodasein, 2022/02/06