Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: TeXmacs keyboard behaviour

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:48:23PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> 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, ...

I agree to make the default TeXmacs behaviour more standard and
provide an option for Emacs compatability. This should become part
of a more global reorganization of the interface behaviour.
Anyway, please improve your patches as much as you can;
I will apply them when coming to the interface standardization.

Best wishes, Joris