Re: Selection changes in revno 100822

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Stefan Monnier writes:

 > >> >> > Here is a summary of the current scheme:
 > >> >> [...]
 > >> >> >   5. mouse-2 yanks primary.
 > >> >> Question: how do I yank the primary from the keyboard?
 > >> >> I used to do that with C-y very happily.
 > >> > Gotta tinker with x-select-enable-primary, I think.
 > >> We need a better answer.
 > > I'm not sure what to make of this remark.
 > That I think it needs to be possible to do it from the keyboard,
 > even with the default settings.

If that's what you want, how about adding "copy text from primary and
paste it" functionality to yank itself?  Then (on X11 only) you could
use C-y to yank from selections in other applications.

This would be independent of the decision whether to copy primary to
clipboard or kill-ring, although it would seem that the position
"what was good enough for Grampaw RMS is good enough for me" is going
to prevail, and Emacs is going to continue to DWI don't M (for values
of "I" = "me"), and automatically copy primary to the kill ring.