Re: mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699

[Jan D.]

Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-12-23 05:03:
> > Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:10:25 +0000
> > From: David De La Harpe Golden<address@hidden>
> > CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> >
> > On 22/12/10 19:17, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks.  I know all that.  My question was about this pair of calls on
> > > X, not about Windows.
> >
> > And hasn't that now been answered?
>
> Almost: I'd like Jan to tell whether my guess regarding the reason(s)
> for his change was correct.

The reason was indeed to call x-selection-value-internal.  All this 
selection stuff is a bit messy now.  Ideally x-get-selection should use 
x-select-request-type and we could reduce the number of function that 
gets selection on X.  However, one would have to check all platforms and 
all uses of the current routines to do a good refactoring.

        Jan D.