> From: help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac...@gnu.org > [mailto:help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac...@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of Eli Zaretskii > Sent: 06 March 2011 1:07 pm > To: Francis Wright > Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Yank primary selection > > > 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.
I often copy text to the clipboard in another application and then paste it in Emacs using the mouse, or I copy text in Emacs using the mouse and then paste it in another application. If I understood what you wrote above correctly, I will not be able to do this with the mouse in Emacs 24.
