Subject: RE: bug#6689: 24.0.50; No primary selection

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:38:44 -0700

> > I still want the ability to select text with the mouse 
> > and yank it into the same or another Emacs session
> > (even another session of another Emacs release -
> > in either direction).
> 
> You can have it, if you customize mouse-drag-copy-region to t, like it
> was before the changes that broke mouse-2 on Windows.

Thanks for the info.  Hopefully, when all of the changes are over and done with,
and all of the default decisions made, this and any other customizations needed
to get back the previous behavior will be documented together (e.g. in NEWS).

BTW, the doc string for that option doesn't say much about what it does, at
least to me.  And the option name doesn't seem terrific either.