Re: select-active-regions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:52:20 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Cc: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
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> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > As I explained elsewhere in this thread, Emacs on DOS and Windows
> > thrashes the clipboard all the time anyway.  So anyone using Emacs on
> > Windows ought to be accustomed to that already.  I know I am.
> 
> I have never noticed that problem. It might be because I use Viper and
> the vi cut, copy and paste operations are structured like the CUA
> dito. Everyone expect CUA operations to use the clipboard and Viper/vi
> uses it the same way. It would be quite annoying if that was broken.

This is a misunderstanding: I didn't say copying to clipboard was
broken.  I said that Emacs on Windows copies text to the clipboard
very often, and so its (the clipboard's) contents is quite volatile
when Emacs is around.