Re: Selection changes in revno 100822

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 14/08/10 16:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:


> For now, I fixed the Windows build by using x-get-selection-value in
> preference to the primary selection.  This change is in revno 101080.


I did already suggest reverting the rebinding of mouse-2 to 
mouse-yank-at-click, but then adding a mouse-yank-selection-only (or 
other name) customization to it so that its side-effect on the kill-ring 
could be removed.

Then that could just be turned off for w32, instead of mangling what was 
the straightforward single-purpose mouse-yank-primary.

That would also have the advantage of preserving compatibility with 
third-party packages and other call sites of mouse-yank-at-click,
and mean switching between new and "classic" (ahem) emacs behaviour 
would just be a matter of boolean customizations instead of 
customisation (easy) and rebinding (hard).

Sigh.

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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:32:19 +0100
From: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Selection changes
To: address@hidden, Chong Yidong <address@hidden>,
 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>

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