Re: mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:32:53 +0100
> From: "Jan D." <address@hidden>
> CC: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>, 
>  address@hidden
> 
> The reason was indeed to call x-selection-value-internal.

Thanks!

> All this selection stuff is a bit messy now.

Yep.

> Ideally x-get-selection should use x-select-request-type and we
> could reduce the number of function that gets selection on X.
> However, one would have to check all platforms and all uses of the
> current routines to do a good refactoring.

One way forward would be for Someone™ to suggest the refactoring on
X, and then ask experts for other platforms to adapt the
platform-specific emulations to that.