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24.0.50; Mouse-2 behavior inconsistant in ansi-term mode

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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy <at> grenoble-inp.fr>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.50; Mouse-2 behavior inconsistant in ansi-term mode
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:23:40 +0200

Hi,

In most buffers, mouse-2 now pastes the content of the X primary
selection. In ansi-term buffers, where mouse-2 is bound to
term-mouse-paste, it pastes the content of the kill ring instead.

This is very confusing, since it means that a click on the same button
of the mouse will paste different result in different buffers.

It also means the usual "select to copy, middle-click to paste"
behavior usual to unix users doesn't work as it is in term mode.

Steps to reproduce:

emacs -Q
M-x ansi-term RET RET
kill a piece of text (C-k or so)
select a piece of text
mouse-2 in ansi-term buffer
mouse-2 in any other buffer

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

Message #8 received at 6845 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy <at> grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>, 6845 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6845: 24.0.50; Mouse-2 behavior inconsistant in ansi-term mode
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:57:29 -0400

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy <at> grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> In most buffers, mouse-2 now pastes the content of the X primary
> selection. In ansi-term buffers, where mouse-2 is bound to
> term-mouse-paste, it pastes the content of the kill ring instead.
>
> This is very confusing, since it means that a click on the same button
> of the mouse will paste different result in different buffers.
>
> It also means the usual "select to copy, middle-click to paste"
> behavior usual to unix users doesn't work as it is in term mode.

This sounds like a problem indeed.  I changed term-mouse-paste to yank
the primary selection.

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