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RE: purpose and usage of secondary-selection ???
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: purpose and usage of secondary-selection ??? |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:38:25 -0700 (PDT) |
> PS (to developers): It would be nice if the emacs menus had some mention
> of secondary-selection, maybe some of its very basic functionality. Not
> a big fan of mousing around in text processors or editors, but sometimes
> a menu can give a clue when I don't have one. :)
Please consider sending enhancement suggestions to the Emacs
developers, by doing `M-x report-emacs-bug' (that is also for
enhancements).
Wrt your menu idea:
There are few vanilla-Emacs commands that involve the secondary
selection. Those that do exist I cannot imagine being useful
on a menu.
But I do agree with you that it can be helpful to discover
commands by exploring menus.
Library `second-sel.el' offers some more secondary-selection
commands, and some of them can be useful on a menu. Library
`menu-bar+.el' adds these to the `Edit' menu, after `Paste':
`Paste Secondary'
`Move Secondary to Region'
`Swap Region and Secondary'
`Select Secondary as Region'
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MenuBarPlus