Re: Selection changes in revno 100822

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:42:56 +0100
> From: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On 15/08/10 22:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> 
> >>> What happens on X when you type
> >>> C-y after mouse-2?
> >>
> >> You get a clipboard/kill-ring yank.
> >
> > That's identical to what you get on w32 with my change.
> 
> Um. Copy some text in notepad.exe, then hit mouse-2 in emacs.exe, then 
> C-y, hopefully you'll see the problem. Or maybe you'll decide it's a 
> feature.

It's a consequence of the fact that there's only one interprogram
selection on Windows.  No matter how hard we try, we cannot get 100%
compatibility with X here, only come close.

What you describe matches my expectations for Windows.  Maybe that's
just me; time will tell.