> From: "Francis Wright" <f.j.wri...@qmul.ac.uk> > Cc: <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org> > Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 12:39:21 -0000 > > > In Emacs 24, only keyboard keys, like C-w/M-w copy text into the > > clipboard, and only C-y paste it from the clipboard. > > May I ask why this change is being made in Emacs 24?
For consistency with the X behavior. There was a long discussion thread about this on emacs-devel a few months ago, look it up if you want the details. > It seems like a step backwards and will stop me doing things I do a > lot. I don't think you will be unable to do in Emacs 24 anything you do now, but if you give specific examples of what you have in mind, I will test them in Emacs 24 and see if there are any problems.
