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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it>

Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 22:04:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

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From: David De La Harpe Golden <david <at> harpegolden.net>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it>
Subject: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:33:00 +0100

On 02/08/10 21:30, David De La Harpe Golden wrote:


> Just doing it eagerly may be better. However, one of the non-efficiency
> reasons for the laziness was because certain gestures in emacs are
> really effectively "long running commands" that you can stop and switch
> to another application in the middle of (track-mouse...), and something
> happening purely before/after commands can leave the region stale,

Gaah, sorry, can leave the (x11) _selection_ stale - you get strange
things like the primary containing only the first letter of the active 
region that's visible onscreen, say.
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