On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:48:23PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:30:32PM +0100, Stephan Mucha wrote: > > > I felt very glad when I saw Lionels patch for "Make selection > > behavior more standard conformant" as this is a very important point > > for my work with TeXmacs. > > It is originally not my patch, but Norbert Nemec's. I merely enhanced > the code quality of two little lines of it. Credit and blame for the > overall patch should go to Norbert. > > > Unfortunaly, it doesn't adress one important problem: Selections always > > go to clipboard (...) > > Indeed. > > > Afaik, most unix X11 applications which support both types of > > selection behaviour separate the two: > > I had in memory that it is specified in the ICCCM (the X11 > Inter-Client Communication Convention Manual) that they should indeed > be separated in that "merely select with the mouse" shall use PRIMARY, > that mouse middle-click shall use PRIMARY and that explicit commands, > whether by menu or keyboard shortcut shall use CLIPBOARD. However, I > can't find that language back in the ICCCM right now... > > Emacs doesn't quite behave that way, but this is considered a bug most > people - except the emacs developers. They added options to get this > standard behaviour, and also to overdo it: menu-bar-enable-clipboard, > x-select-enable-clipboard, ...
I agree to make the default TeXmacs behaviour more standard and provide an option for Emacs compatability. This should become part of a more global reorganization of the interface behaviour. Anyway, please improve your patches as much as you can; I will apply them when coming to the interface standardization. Best wishes, Joris _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
