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
Subject: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:26:42 +0100

...Oh, guess I went round in a big circle...
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=902#80
> maybe it should be copying and  "holding" as a string the selection 
before a command runs
> ...
> OTOH, that sounds more complex, and such cases don't seem to arise 
much (or at all) in practice - at least I haven't noticed them.

... d'oh!

I'm certainly becoming concerned these contortions to preserve some 
laziness may be worse than just accepting a requirement to update a 
string selection where necessary and its overhead.

Humph ...do we have copy-on-write buffers...
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