Re: Improving X selection?

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 08/02/2008, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
> David De La Harpe Golden writes:
>
>  > Okay, but then you have to be very careful about what
>  > x-select-enable-clipboard (or even a "select-enable-clipboard")
>  > actually denotes IMO:
>  >
>  > By that reading, a logical interpretation of a boolean var called
>  > select-enable-clipboard might be that when t, when text is merely
>  > selected, the clipboard is to be affected,
>
> You mean that text would actually be copied to the clipboard?  YMMV,
> but it would never occur to me to interpret it that way.

But that IS one of several effects of x-select-enable-clipboard t with
mouse-drag-copy-region t in existing emacs when you merely select text
with a mouse drag (but only because mouse-drag-track with
mouse-drag-copy-region t does a copy-region-as-kill, which does an
interprogram-cut-function, which affects the clipboard if
x-select-enable-clipboard is t)