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

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Message #46 received at 56530 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Cc: David Ponce <da_vid <at> orange.fr>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
 56530 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56530: 29.0.50; mouse-2 cut selected text when cua-mode is
 enabled
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:19:56 +0300

>> That wasn't really the intention of the change, I think?  It was so that
>> if you paste text from a different program into a selected area in
>> Emacs, then that area would be deleted first, or do I misremember?
>
> 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.

It should delete the region only when clicking on the selected region.
Maybe it's possible to add a corresponding function for the
'delete-selection' property?

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