Re: On cut, copy, paste etc...

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-08-01 17:26 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Did you look at the code of clipboard-kill-region?  It does little
> besides calling kill-region.

Yes, I looked at it.

>> And as nearly every other modern application uses the clipboard for
>> copy'n paste keyboard shortcuts, Emacs not doing this by default will
>> irritate novice users anyway.
>
> Sorry, I'm not following: what is it that Emacs doesn't do by default,
> or won't be doing under my suggestion?

It doesn't use the clipboard for kill-region, yank and friends.  Under
X, that is; the Windows default is different.

Sven