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Re: Improving X selection?
From: |
David De La Harpe Golden |
Subject: |
Re: Improving X selection? |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:22:07 +0000 |
On 07/02/2008, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
> The current behavior
> of Emacs (and XEmacs) was generally decided ages ago, deliberately
> flouting the conventions of X11 (I believe these are recommended but
> not mandated by the ICCCM), which haven't changed since then AFAICT.
> My understanding is that this behavior was hotly debated at that time,
> and deliberately chosen.
Since then, freedesktop.org has further spoken, so things have in fact
changed slightly:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt
> > lightins:
>
> Yuck. Sounds like occupying a government office as a demonstration
> against opaque politics. Please spell out your intended expansion,
> and let the users choose the abbreviation.
>
Would be nice to find one that didn't induce an extra hyphen is all -
interprogram-cut-function
interprogram-paste-function
interprogram-highlight-function
interprogram-highlight-insert-function
is just annoyingly asymmetric looking. It's probably "good enough" though,
unless there's a better suggestion.
- Re: Improving X selection?, (continued)
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Miles Bader, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?,
David De La Harpe Golden <=
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/07
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/07
- OT [was Re: Improving X selection?], Tom Horsley, 2008/02/08
- Re: OT [was Re: Improving X selection?], David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/08