Re: Shouldn't emacs .rpm enable the clipboard?

[Sven Joachim]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:27:59 -0400
>> From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@redhat.com>
>> 
>> When I install emacs, shouldn't the rpm modify .emacs to enable the 
>> clipboard by default?
>
> It shouldn't need to: the X selection is enabled by default when you
> run Emacs on X.

Yes, but not the clipboard.  This means you normally cannot paste text
from Emacs into other programs with the keyboard, since this operation
usually uses the clipboard rather than the primary selection.

For that reason, I set x-select-enable-clipboard to t in my .emacs, I
hate to reach to the mouse and paste with the middle button.
Would it be an idea set x-select-enable-clipboard to t by default?