GNU bug report logs - #7699
24.0.50; Emacs still doesn't paste what you select with mouse

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.0.50; Emacs still doesn't paste what you select with mouse
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:36:21 -0800

emacs -Q
 
Select some text outside an Emacs session - e.g. from another Emacs
session or from a Web browser or other app.  Copy it to the clipboard
(C-c on Windows).
 
In Emacs, select some text with the mouse (e.g. drag mouse-1).  Click
mouse-2 to paste the text you selected.  Instead what was copied to the
clipboard gets pasted.
 

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2010-12-20 on 3249CTO
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags
-Ic:/imagesupport/include'
 

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 7699 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7699: 24.0.50;
	Emacs still doesn't paste what you select with mouse
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:14:09 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:36:21 -0800
> Cc: 
> 
> emacs -Q
>  
> Select some text outside an Emacs session - e.g. from another Emacs
> session or from a Web browser or other app.  Copy it to the clipboard
> (C-c on Windows).
>  
> In Emacs, select some text with the mouse (e.g. drag mouse-1).  Click
> mouse-2 to paste the text you selected.  Instead what was copied to the
> clipboard gets pasted.

It will work as you want if you customize mouse-drag-copy-region to a
non-nil value, I think.

I will try to fix the default case as well in a few days (let me know
if you want meanwhile to try a fix -- it's in mouse.el), but no
promises, since this is all very tricky due to conflicting
requirements and the fact that Windows doesn't have primary selection.
See, for example, bug#6689.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 7699 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#7699: 24.0.50;
	Emacs still doesn't paste what you select with mouse
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:33:05 -0800

> > select some text with the mouse (e.g. drag 
> > mouse-1).  Click mouse-2 to paste the text you selected.
> > Instead what was copied to the clipboard gets pasted.
> 
> It will work as you want if you customize mouse-drag-copy-region to a
> non-nil value, I think.

Yes, and that's what I use for myself.

This report is about the default setting of nil, i.e., for others.

> I will try to fix the default case as well in a few days (let me know
> if you want meanwhile to try a fix -- it's in mouse.el), but no
> promises, since this is all very tricky due to conflicting
> requirements and the fact that Windows doesn't have primary selection.
> See, for example, bug#6689.

Great, thanks.  And good luck.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 7699-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7699: 24.0.50;
	Emacs still doesn't paste what you select with mouse
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:59:02 +0200

> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:14:09 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 7699 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I will try to fix the default case as well in a few days (let me know
> if you want meanwhile to try a fix -- it's in mouse.el), but no
> promises, since this is all very tricky due to conflicting
> requirements and the fact that Windows doesn't have primary selection.
> See, for example, bug#6689.

Fixed (revno 102707 on the trunk).

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