Re: Selection changes in revno 100822

[Manoj Srivastava]

On Mon, Aug 16 2010, Miles Bader wrote:

> Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> writes:
>>         As an end user, I don't know whether the highlighted text I
>>  see goes into Primary, Secondary, or clipboard (I use X windows on a
>>  GNU/Linux machine). I see it highlighted, and am very confused as to
>>  why it sometimes does not yank with C-y. I find this inconsistency in
>>  Emacs confusing.
>
> Can you try:
>
>    (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
>    (setq x-select-enable-primary t)
>
> They make things work better for me.

        Thanks. That did work; and I think that ought to be the default
 if we detect that the window-system is X, but I am content now that I
 know how to get things working as I wanted.

        I still find the doc string of select-active-regions to be
 unclear, since I am not sure when "deactivate-mark" happens, and I
 suspect most users would also not know. Could the documentation be
 clarified as to what the user visible changes that setting it to 'lazy vs
 setting it to t are?

        thanks

        manoj
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