Clipboard interactions [was: Re: Emacs learning curve]

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 11/07/10 19:05, Sebastian Rose wrote:
> Chong Yidong<address@hidden>  writes:
> > Miles Bader<address@hidden>  writes:
> >
> > > But other than that, why not just tell them to set
> > > x-select-enable-clipboard ?
> >
> > Thanks for reminding me: is there any reason x-select-enable-clipboard
> > isn't t by default?
>
>
> I wouldn't want that.  It's non-conform to what _all_ other applications on
> Linux do (same on Windows, I believe).
>
> I mean no one would expect Firefox to put text into the clipboard if you
> select it using the mouse.

[The mouse-drag-copy-region => nil I mentioned elsemail stops that in 
particular]

> Why would I want to have each and every snippet I kill in the clipboard?

Buggered if I know, but last time the matter came up Eli in particular 
expressed a desire for that on w32.   I did promise  to allow that with 
a clipboard-active-regions setting by analogy with the existing
select-active-regions.  (I do _not_ want them mixed up!)

Each build under w32 (via WINE, I don't have windows) for me is (or was, 
must try again) quite annoying and painful relative to the couple of 
minutes it takes to bootstrap emacs natively, so I haven't completed 
that work yet.