Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t?

[Eric Hanchrow]

I think beginner's lives would be easier if x-select-enable-clipboard
defaulted to t -- then Emacs would work the way most other
applications do, namely: when you select some text, you can then paste
it into other applications.

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