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24.5; Paste from clipboard to emacs -nw on windows 8.1

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Message #16 received at 21196-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Pablo Mercader Alcántara <programingfrik <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21196-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21196: 24.5; Paste from clipboard to emacs -nw on windows 8.1
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 09:34:00 +0300

> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 19:03:01 -0400
> From: Pablo Mercader Alcántara <programingfrik <at> gmail.com>
> 
> > Maybe you mean Emacs 23, where indeed the test for the GUI frame
> > was absent.  But that was an omission, which is now fixed.
> 
> And why do we want to remove that thing that I say is a "feature" but it looks
> like it was treated like a "bug".

For consistency across platforms, I guess.

> I think that this feature/bug thing is working backwards. Isn't it desireble
> to use X's clipboard on an xterm emacs session? so insted of taking the
> functionality from the windows version, why don't we implement it on the
> *nix version :D.

It's not always possible to do on Unix what Emacs 23 and before did on
Windows.  On Unix you can build Emacs without any X support
whatsoever, something that is not supported on Windows.  In that case,
X functions are not available.

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