> Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org > From: Kenneth Goldman <kgold...@us.ibm.com> > Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:33:51 -0500 > > I agree that it's going in the wrong direction. Why remove something > so useful?
No other application behaves like this, even on Windows. It was decided that the default behavior should match other applications, so that naive users get what they expect. > I like being able to cut by dragging the mouse and paste with the > middle mouse. Well, you can still get that, at a cost of 2 customizations. It's all in etc/NEWS. > With other Windows applications, we're stuck with C-C, C-v, but why > hobble emacs to emulate a mediocre interface? There are those who believe that stomping on the clipboard data just because you marked a region or double-clicked on a word is anti-social behavior, and Emacs should not do that by default. Now, I was asked why this change was made and how to get back the old behavior, and I answered that. Please do not start another dispute about this here. This horse was beaten to death on emacs-devel, and nothing that you say will bring up something that wasn't already brought up there. You can read those discussions if you want. Personally, I think that 2 customizations is not a terribly high price to pay for dissent, so no one should care too much about the defaults.
