bug#16382: Cut/Copy tool-bar icons issue

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 14/01/2014 17.07, Jan Djärv ha scritto:
> Hello.
>
> 14 jan 2014 kl. 10:03 skrev Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>:
>
> > Should we open a new bug report for this?
>
> This report is fine.  The omission to copy to PRIMARY looks intended, because 
> when text is read-only and cut acts like copy, text is copied to PRIMARY.

"intended" ? If it is intended, which is its usefulness?

If one wants to move text from a place to another, this doesn't work 
using the mouse and the "cut" icon on the tool-bar...

1. select the text with mouse-1 (dragging over the text)
2. click the "cut" icon on the tool-bar: the text is removed
3. now move the mouse pointer where you want the text to reappear
4. click mouse-2 to paste: nothing happens

So, newly, which the usefulness of the above "intended" omission?


> I wonder if there is some thought behind this we don't see.

ah..


Ciao,
Angelo.

> > Il 12/01/2014 19.03, Jan Djärv ha scritto:
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > Copy does save in PRIMARY, but cut does not for some reason.
> > >
> > >      Jan D.
> > >
> > >
> > > 2014-01-12 12:26, Angelo Graziosi skrev:
> > > > Il 09/01/2014 3.00, Stefan Monnier ha scritto:
> > > > > I've installed a patch which calls force-mode-line-update when the mark
> > > > > is (de)activated.
> > > >
> > > > Hmm... it seems there are still problems, mainly with "cut" icon...
> > > >
> > > > With a recent trunk build (GTK build on Cygwin, two days ago), I see
> > > > this:
> > > >
> > > > $ emacs -Q &
> > > >
> > > > 1. Now with the mouse I select the word "create" on second row of scratch
> > > > buffer. The "cut" and "copy" icons in tool-bar are active.
> > > >
> > > > 2. I click the "cut" icon and the word "create" is removed and the
> > > > "cut" and
> > > > "copy" icons are grayed (disabled).
> > > >
> > > > 3. Then I move the mouse pointer on the letter "b" of the word
> > > > "buffer" on
> > > > third row and...
> > > >
> > > > 4. ...I click the mouse-2 (wheel) to paste.. but it doesn't work, only
> > > > the
> > > > cursor is moved over the "b".
> > > >
> > > > The same happens if in step 3., after moving the mouse pointer, I
> > > > click with
> > > > mouse-1 to move the cursor over the "b" before step 4.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > If I repeat all the above steps changing the "cut" icon with "copy"
> > > > icon, all
> > > > works as expected.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ciao,
> > > >   Angelo.