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Re: Selection changes in revno 100822
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Selection changes in revno 100822 |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:20:39 -0400 |
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:04:10 +0900
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Miles Bader writes:
>
> > If you _see_ a selected region in Emacs (no matter how it was
> > selected), it's available as the primary for pasting in other
> > apps.
>
> But that is normally *not true* in Windows, without C-c or C-x (or the
> menu equivalents) first.
Miles was talking about X, not about Windows; and so was I. We need
to decide on behavior on X before we decide how to map that to
Windows.
> The traditional Windows interface for
> pasting the primary is drag and drop, not C-v. C-v will replace the
> primary without saving it, with the current content of the clipboard.
>
> See my reply to Eli for more detail on why this is so.
See my message near the beginning of this thread, where I said that on
Windows Emacs should not by default set the clipboard upon selection.
> If you want X11 and Windows (and Mac, for that matter) to have similar
> interfaces here, then you could disable middle-click-to-paste (by
> default) on X11, and use "drag to paste" consistently.
IMO, that would be bad for users on X, because mouse-2 pasting from
PRIMARY is standard there.
As of yesterday, mouse-2 on Windows pastes from the clipboard (and
falls back on the emulated PRIMARY if the clipboard is empty). I
think this is a reasonable compromise, in that it makes Emacs behave
quite consistently, at least as far as user expectations go.
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, (continued)
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David Kastrup, 2010/08/16
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Jan Djärv, 2010/08/16
- RE: Selection changes in revno 100822, Drew Adams, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Miles Bader, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/15
- RE: Selection changes in revno 100822, Drew Adams, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/15
- Re: Selection changes in revno 100822, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/08/15