GNU bug report logs - #6774
Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?

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Message #208 received at 6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it, 6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	handa <at> m17n.org
Subject: Re: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:26:22 -0400

> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:24:16 +0200
> From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
> CC: handa <at> m17n.org, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, 6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 
>  angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it
> 
> 1. The region is different from previous redisplay.
> 2. The region is not empty.
> 3. The region is hightlighted.

2 and 3 are trivial, but 1 is slightly harder: we don't currently
track whether region beginning and end changed.

> > And why a hook? do we want to do in that hook anything except set some
> > selection, like PRIMARY?  If we only want to set a selection, we can
> > do that directly.
> 
> Yes, but given all the variables that can influence what to do, I just thought 
> it better to hand it off out of redisplay.

Accessing a Lisp variable from C is hardly a concern.

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