Re: On cut, copy, paste etc...

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sven Joachim <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:52:07 +0200
> 
> >> And as nearly every other modern application uses the clipboard for
> >> copy'n paste keyboard shortcuts, Emacs not doing this by default will
> >> irritate novice users anyway.
> >
> > Sorry, I'm not following: what is it that Emacs doesn't do by default,
> > or won't be doing under my suggestion?
> 
> It doesn't use the clipboard for kill-region, yank and friends.  Under
> X, that is; the Windows default is different.

Do you mean literally the clipboard (as opposed to X selection, that
is)?  Because C-w does set the X selection, and yank does look at the
X selection.  Isn't that what other GUI applications do on X?