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bug#49728: x11 primary selection with mouse
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#49728: x11 primary selection with mouse |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Aug 2022 20:19:40 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Johannes Martinez <spamreceiver23@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi, I'm writing a clipboard manager and notice some odd behaviour with
> emacs. It seems to be setting the primary selection while mouse
> button is down and not on button up. So what happens is that you're
> continuously setting the selection as the user fiddles the mouse the
> highlight just the text they want.
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)
You didn't say what Emacs version you saw this in -- is this still
happening in recent Emacs versions? I had a very quick look at
`gui-set-selection' in Emacs 29, and it seems to be called on mouse-up
there.
- bug#49728: x11 primary selection with mouse,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=