Re: mouse-yank-primary and bug #7699

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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.

Indeed, and Emacs-24 is as good an opportunity as any to do such
a refactoring.


        Stefan