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Re: Minor enhancements to Emacs packages
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Minor enhancements to Emacs packages |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:23:59 +0200 |
On 28 Feb 2001, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>
> Hmm? Could you give an example? I think selected text _is_
> automatically copied into the clipboard, including on Windows and the
> Mac.
>
> No. On both the Windows and Mac platforms, selecting is just that:
> selection. You then have to use a command on the selection.
I thought the OP was talking about how Emacs on those platforms works.
> I am not sure about it, but I would say that Emacs ports on systems
> other than X should take this into account.
As someone who works a lot on both types of platforms, I'd find it very
confusing if Emacs would behave differently on each platform. There are
special modes to make Emacs behave like a native Windows application.