Re: [Texmacs-dev] Patches: copy/paste and selection handling.

[Todd Wilson]

Norbert Nemec wrote:
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>> Datum: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:59:00 -0800 Von: Daniel Bump
>> <address@hidden> An: address@hidden CC:
>> address@hidden Betreff: Re: [Texmacs-dev] Patches: copy/paste
>> and selection handling.
> 
>>> My question to Emacs-mode users: Should the kill-ring simply be 
>>> identical with the primary buffer as it is right now or is there
>>> a need for a separate mechanism?
>> In emacs the kill-ring contains not only the most recent kill but
>> previous ones also. In TeXmacs, I don't think more than the most
>> recent kill is saved. If you want to access an earlier kill, you
>> have to undo.
> 
> True. The full functionality of a kill-"ring" is not implemented in
> TeXmacs. Implementing this cleanly would be major surgery, so we will
> have to do with just one kill-buffer (i.e. TeXmacs primary buffer,
> aka. X11-clipboard) which is lost when new content is copied or cut.

That's too bad:  I'd long hoped that the full kill-ring functionality
would be a part of TeXmacs.

> a) In original Emacs, the mark is remembered until it is set in some
> other location (via ctrl-space). In TeXmacs, the mark is forgotten as
> soon as any editing command is issued. Does this bother anyone in
> practice? Do emacs-people usually expect the mark to be remembered
> through text editing?

As a user of Emacs for over two decades, and someone who was initially
drawn to TeXmacs because of its similarity to Emacs, my preference would
be to have the emacs mode be as close to Emacs as possible, as least
from the point of view of the interface (the fact that TeXmacs functions
are named differently from their Emacs counterparts doesn't bother me at
all).

> To fully follow the standard in Windows mode, selected text should be
> replaced when entering/pasting new text. This would clearly annoy
> Emacs-mode users, so the behavior should depend on the mode.

It wouldn't annoy some Emacs users, for example the ones that use
delete-selection-mode (or pending-delete-mode in XEmacs).

Todd Wilson