Re: Emacs learning curve

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 12/07/10 10:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:00:50 +0100
> > From: David De La Harpe Golden<address@hidden>
> >
> > > > To summarize:
> > > >
> > > >     C-w and M-w should copy to the clipboard and set the primary
> > > >       in addition to updating the kill-ring.
> > > >
> > > >     shift-selection and mouse-dragging should set/update the primary,
> > > >       leaving the clipboard and the kill-ring alone.
> > > >
> > > >     mouse-2 should yank the primary.
> > >
> > > What about the region highlighted by typing C-SPC twice and then
> > > moving cursor -- will it go to the primary as well?
> >
> > [it's c-spc once out-of-box, you must have turned off transient-mark-mode?]
>
> Yes.
>
> > I would expect so
>
> That would be an annoyance, IMO.

Well, I find it isn't in practice (quite some time thereof now), in fact 
it is least surprising: It feels quite in keeping with X11 user 
expectations that the most recently selected whatever is to be found in 
primary.