Hi,
Tom Hughes wrote on Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 02:22:35PM +0000:
I think the bug explains fairly well why that is a bad idea.
Sorry to butt in, but no, it explains why a handful of people think it
is a bad idea, with another saying it's a good one.
It's not so much on the paste side, where having middle click
paste whatever
was in the clipboard side would not be a major problem.
It's more that you probably wouldn't want your clipboard buffer overwritten
whenever you selected some text.
Currently X has two (well three, but let's ignore the secondary selection)
buffers. One for primary selection that is overwritten when you select and
pasted with middle click and one for the clipboard selection that is
overwritten on Ctrl+C and pasted on Ctrl+V.
It really didn't take me long after first using X-based interfaces to
make use of the primary buffer, and I've pretty much never used ^C/^V
ever since.
I only ever touch the mouse when I need to select something to
copy/paste it, so I'm not going to try to pretend I understand people
saying they don't want this behavior -- but likewise please don't say
that the "selection copies" behavior is bad for everyone.
It really isn't something I (and seemingly many others) want to lose,
ever.
I also don't think multiple buffers is a good idea, I've always found
that confusing in X and this has been said in the bz as well, so we
really should try to keep a single buffer too.
If we can't get to a compromise just make it an option and everyone will
be happy (except maybe for the nagging of what should be the default,
but people can just make a poll for that -- I personally don't care as
long as it's possible without having to hack code and rebuild)
--
Dominique Martinet