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Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?

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Message #17 received at 6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: David De La Harpe Golden <david <at> harpegolden.net>
Cc: 6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it>
Subject: Re: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:41:58 -0400

David De La Harpe Golden <david <at> harpegolden.net> writes:

> Yes, there's a problem here - I guess emacs is keeping primary bound
> to a span that's become zero-length. Again.

After thinking about this, my opinion is that the Emacs command
loop---or rather prepare_to_modify_buffer in insdel.c---should make a
copy of the primary selection before running before-change-functions.
Then, deactivate-mark should check if the resulting string is empty;
and, if so, set the primary to that saved copy.

I haven't looked at your branch; is this the approach you implemented?

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