Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse

[Stefan Reichör]

Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 26 2011, Miles Bader wrote:
>
>> Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> writes:
>>>  What I want is the  behaviour I think I used to have in Emacs on
>>>  GNU/Linux X Windows:
>>>   1) Whatever text is pasted when I click <down-mouse-2>
>>>      (mouse-yank-primary?) should be the same thing yanked when I type
>>>      C-y (yank)
>>>   2) Conversely, text that is selected in Emacs, such that it is
>>>      inserted with a C-y (yank) should also be the text that is pasted
>>>      into, say, an xterm when I do a middle mouse click in there.
>>
>> I agree, this was very nice behavior.
>>
>>>         What changes do I need to make to get this?
>>
>> I've not found a tenable way to simulate the old behavior with the new
>> code.
>
>         I would say that this is a regression, then. Before the new
>  code, I never had to worry about primary and secondary selections; and
>  pasting using a mouse was the same as yanking, and text selected in
>  Emacs could easily be passed around to other X Windows applications.
>
>         Is there a possibility for this regression to be fixed? If I
>  recall correctly, the new code was supposed to preserve the old
>  features, and that does not seem to be the case here.

I use the same settings as Manoj.

The thing that annoys me is replacing text.
Whenever I select something and want to replace it with the X-Selection.
It replaces it with the new (now selected X-Selection).
That means there is no change and I have to use C-y M-y

Before I could just use C-y


Stefan.