[Texmacs-dev] Re: TeXmacs keyboard behaviour

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:30:32PM +0100, Stephan Mucha wrote:

> I felt very glad when I saw Lionels patch for "Make selection
> behavior more standard conformant" as this is a very important point
> for my work with TeXmacs.

It is originally not my  patch, but Norbert Nemec's. I merely enhanced
the code quality  of two little lines of it. Credit  and blame for the
overall patch should go to Norbert.

> Unfortunaly, it doesn't adress one important problem: Selections always
> go to clipboard (...)

Indeed.

> Afaik, most unix X11 applications which support both types of
> selection behaviour separate the two:

I had in memory that it is specified in the ICCCM (the X11
Inter-Client Communication Convention Manual) that they should indeed
be separated in that "merely select with the mouse" shall use PRIMARY,
that mouse middle-click shall use PRIMARY and that explicit commands,
whether by menu or keyboard shortcut shall use CLIPBOARD. However, I
can't find that language back in the ICCCM right now...

Emacs doesn't quite behave that way, but this is considered a bug most
people - except the emacs developers. They added options to get this
standard behaviour, and also to overdo it: menu-bar-enable-clipboard,
x-select-enable-clipboard, ...

-- 
Lionel