Re: Improving X selection?

[Jan Djärv]

Horsley, Tom skrev:
> > > I am very opposed to any solution that drags in any selection I explicitly 
> > > does not paste into Emacs.  For example, if I want to paste CLIPBOARD,
> > > PRIMARY 
> > > may be a very large selection. Over a slow link, getting PRIMARY also makes 
> > > Emacs unresponsive for several seconds.
> > This just means that not all users will like the proposal, and
> > therefore we should have an option to let the users decide what they
> > want.  The option should probably be tristate, as the current behavior
> > could have its zealots as well, who will hate the change.  Maybe even
> > 4 different values, see below.
>
> Actually, I was sort of thinking that once the basic support
> for returning multiple selection strings was implemented, an
> X specific change could be devised that would introduce a
> configurable variable something like:
>
> x-paste-what-selections
>
> which could be a list of 'CLIPBOARD, 'PRIMARY, etc.

That would have to be something like:
 x-paste-what-selections-with-menubar
 x-paste-what-selections-with-toolbar
 x-paste-what-selections-with-keys
 x-paste-what-selections-with-mouse

to be useful, i.e. able to support the freedesktop model.

        Jan D.