Re: select-active-regions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:41:34 +0800
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> CC: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>, 
>  address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > The Windows clipboard is also analogous to the X11 primary selection,
> > in that copy/paste work on Windows through the clipboard.
> >   
> No, it is not analogous to the X11 primary selection, as the X11 primary 
> selection does not clobber the clipboard as any emulation of primary 
> selections using the clipboard necessarily would.

It's analogous in the sense that killing puts text there and yanking
gets text from there.

> IIRC, Emacs on w32 used to emulate primary selections in the way you 
> describe, but it triggered many bug reports about Emacs destroying 
> clipboard contents when the user selected text in Emacs for reasons 
> other than killing or copying the region.

Any pointers to these bug reports?  I'm just curious what got people
annoyed.

Anyway, do you think it is better to have this feature effectively
disabled on Windows, than copy into the clipboard?