Re: emacs -nw: share mouse cut & pastes from other X windows

[Bill Richter]

>>>>> "David" == David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu> writes:

  David> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
  >> [...] we don't want users to reach for the mouse when they type
  >> in Emacs.

  David> But  does much, much more.  When I type C-k, I'm not
  David> "selecting" anything.  This certainly isn't a request to
  David> deselect whatever I have carefully put in the cut buffer.
  David> But that's what Emacs does.

I like this new feature for the opposite reason than Eli does!
There's now no penalty for using the mouse!  That is:

If you could preserve your carefully selected cut buffer by using C-k
instead of cutting with the mouse (mouse-3 twice or mouse-3 + DEL),
then users would be forced to learn the linear C-k stuff in addition
to the spatial mouse stuff.  Since you're going to munge the X
selection whether you cut with the mouse or Control-this-Meta-that,
might as well cut with the mouse!

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Bill <http://www.math.nwu.edu/~richter>