Re: Selection changes in revno 100822

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:22:44 +0200
> 
> > David's mail comes close, except that Emacs currently does not behave
> > 100% according to what he describes:
> >
> >   clipboards aren't overwritten when you merely select text.
> >   clipboards are overwritten when you cut/copy (C-x/C-c)
> >   clipboards are not inserted when you click mouse-2.
> >   clipboards are inserted when you paste (C-v)
> >   primary selections are overwritten when you merely select text.
> >   primary selections are not overwritten when you cut/copy (C-x/C-c)
> >    (but they've probably already just been overwritten because you
> >     selected text just before you cut/copied).
> >   primary selections are inserted when you click mouse-2.
> >   primary selections are not inserted when you paste (C-v)
> 
> What is described here seem to be with CUA mode activated (C-x/C-c/C-v)
> isn't it? :-(

It is described in CUA terms, presumably because that's how other apps
behave.  The intent is to have Emacs behave like that with C-W/M-w and
C-y.

> So can you describe what yank/kill with defaults setting is actually
> supposed to do?

The same, see above.

P.S. Could you please quote only the relevant parts of the message you
are responding to?