[2661] in Release_Engineering
emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Fri Jun 28 05:47:35 1991
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 05:47:28 -0400
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: marc@MIT.EDU
Cc: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz's message of Thu, 27 Jun 91 23:00:13 EDT <9106280300.AA19769@hodge>
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
Actually, the suggestion you made was exactly what I planned on doing
today after a couple of people complained about the behavior yesterday.
I, for one, will set the *brain damaged* behavior variable in my .emacs
file :-). I will let the default be the old behavior, because I've been
convinced that it's not worth the trouble forcing users to conform to my
foolish whims of user-interface, even if they are right.
>>> I assumed you mean selections, and not cut buffers.
If you look at the code (and you may not want to, because I had to
butcher your once readable Zephyr code because of emacs brain-damage),
you'll see that it uses both selections and cut buffers. The model is
as follows:
* When you cut from emacs, it will set the PRIMARY selection *and* cut
buffer 0 to the selected text.
* When pasting *to* emacs, it will request the PRIMARY selection. If
there is no current selection, then it will check cut buffer 0 and
paste from there.
I know you might be tempted to say I should bag the cut buffers
altogether, but this provides a way for the Athena version of emacs to
cut and paste between non-Athena versions.
If you see a flaw in this logic, then please suggest
corrections/additions soon, because code cut is coming up very soon.
-Calvin
