Re: Select and Paste

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:48:43 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
>     is a very nice feature to have in the menus but maybe not the best name 
>     for it since "Select" in nearly the same context refers to selecting 
>     text in the buffer.
> 
>     Maybe "Paste More"?
> 
> How about Paste Menu?

How about "Paste From Menu"?

>     BTW "Paste" is enabled when you are in an info buffer, but "Select and 
>     Paste" is not.
> 
> That seems like a bug, but it doesn't happen when I try it,
> and the code checks buffer-read-only.  Can you debug why it
> fails for you?

The fact that Paste and Select and Paste behave differently is not a
bug: Paste could be enabled because Emacs sees text in the X selection
(or the Windows clipboard).  In that case, if the Emacs kill-ring is
empty, Select and Paste will be disabled.

As for the buffer-read-only test, I see that it doesn't work in more
than just Paste: for example, Cut also becomes enabled when I mark a
region in a read-only buffer.  I didn't have time to debug this,
though.