Re: Emacs learning curve

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 12/07/10 08:25, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Chong Yidong<address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:49:03 -0400
> > Cc: Juri Linkov<address@hidden>, Sebastian Rose<address@hidden>,
> >         address@hidden, Tom<address@hidden>,
> >         Miles Bader<address@hidden>
> >
> > To summarize:
> >
> >    C-w and M-w should copy to the clipboard and set the primary
> >      in addition to updating the kill-ring.
> >
> >    shift-selection and mouse-dragging should set/update the primary,
> >      leaving the clipboard and the kill-ring alone.
> >
> >    mouse-2 should yank the primary.
>
> What about the region highlighted by typing C-SPC twice and then
> moving cursor -- will it go to the primary as well?

[it's c-spc once out-of-box, you must have turned off transient-mark-mode?]

I would expect so and n.b. it already does with the relevant settings 
already given.


> > The main downside, IIRC, is that some users may not want C-w in Emacs to
> > clobber the clipboard.  I can understand how this may be a concern,
> > since the Emacs kill-ring is much more flexible than the clipboard.  But
> > this seems to be something for advanced users to worry about; for the
> > default, we ought to stick close to X11 "standards").
>
> Perhaps make a simple minor mode for those users who don't want C-w
> etc. to clobber the clipboard.

They would turn off x-select-enable-clipboard and then use 
clipboard-kill/yank (either bound to some key or the existing ones on 
the menu) for the times they want to interact with the clipboard.

I suppose a mode could set that up, but it borders on trivial.