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

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it
Subject: Re: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:52:19 +0200

Kenichi Handa skrev 2010-08-17 03.44:
> In article<4C68FBF7.1080104 <at> swipnet.se>, Jan Djärv<jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>  writes:
>
>> I though we where moving away from special cases?  Anyway, empty selection do
>> matter.  Consider this case:
>
>> I select a lot of code in another application.
>> I go to Emacs and set mark, then paste the code with mouse-2 and then M-x
>> indent-region.
>
>> With your scheme, mouse-2 would fail to paste, which would be a nasty surprise.
>
> Surely this is not good.  But which is a nastier surprise
> for new users, your case or my case below:
>
>>>>     (1) S-C-n
>>>>     (2) C-@ C-n
>>>> it's very confusing that they behave differently as to
>>>> selection.

They are both equally bad.  I think we should add a hook to redisplay that 
gets called whenever selection is non-zero.  Then that hook can do the right 
thing.

	Jan D.

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