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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it, 6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, david <at> harpegolden.net
Subject: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:50:11 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: David De La Harpe Golden <david <at> harpegolden.net>,  cyd <at> stupidchicken.com,  6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it
> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:13:50 +0200
> 
> > But that would mean setting the selection each time the user does a
> > C-w or M-w or any other action that pushes text on the kill ring,
> > won't it?
> 
> Isn't that what Emacs has been doing for the last 10 years?

Not as far as I know.  Maybe I was living in some pipe dream, but I
always thought the actual copying happened only when some other
application actually requests the selection.
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