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#74833
31.0.50; Copy to OS clipboard doesn't work in macOS Terminal.app with xterm-mouse-mode enabled
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Reported by: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:56:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 31.0.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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On 2024-12-18 09:50, Ship Mints wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 1:32 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> I don't see how this distinction (which I have no doubt is accurate)
>> is important to the decision we should make here. Simply put,
>> "something" that worked on Terminal.app before we turned on xt-moude
>> doesn't work in some cases after we turned it on. That's my bother.
> I see your point, Eli, for sure. Since this is on master, and
> presumably destined for Emacs 31, there seems to be sufficient time for
> people to read NEWS and PROBLEMS and accommodate their configurations
> while Emacs is brought one step forward into behaving, by default, like
> other terminal apps on macOS.
>
> I think someone suggested bringing xclip (seems properly licensed) into
> the core and now might be a good time to consider that.
This seems like a good idea to me too. I think we'd also want a variable
to disable auto-enabling xclip-mode (let's call it
"xterm-enable-xclip-fallback" and assume it defaults to t). So when
Emacs detects it is running in Terminal.app and
xterm-enable-xclip-fallback is set, it enables xclip-mode. In all other
cases, no change is made.
This does still result in a user-facing behavior change: instead of
pressing Command-c, a user would have to press Emacs' key binding, M-w
(or C-c if cua-mode is enabled).
-- MJF
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