Re: Improving X selection?

[Jason Rumney]

David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> *** 1. lisp/w32-vars.el
>
> [Niggle, but would need to be sorted somehow before any merge...]
>
> Not clear on (i) why this file is being loaded in the first place on
> my gnu+linux+xorg system, and (ii) not clear on what another
> x-select-enable-clipboard is doing in it either: presumably w32
> has or should have something like w32-select-enable-clipboard for
> customization of its interprogram-[cut|paste]-function implementations,
> not screw up the x- ones.
>   

It shouldn't be loaded on non-w32 platforms, what evidence do you have 
that it is?

The variable names are the same where the functionality is identical 
because lisp code that sets x-* variables should not have to do (if (eq 
system-type 'w32) w32-... x-...).