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29.0.50; mouse-2 cut selected text when cua-mode is enabled

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: David Ponce <da_vid <at> orange.fr>, 56530 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56530: 29.0.50; mouse-2 cut selected text when cua-mode is enabled
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:30:19 -0700

Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com> writes:

> AFAICT, the recipe produces what I had in my mind when I proposed.  The
> behaviour might seems slightly odd since mouse-yank-at-point is set to
> nil in OP's case.  It shouldn't be hard to take this defcustom into
> account tho.

I think that neither Emacs nor `cua-mode' should behave differently from
other X programs in this regard, certainly not by default.  Could we
please avoid that?  The entire point of `cua-mode' is to be /more/ like
other software, not less.

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