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x11 primary selection with mouse

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From: Johannes Martinez <spamreceiver23 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: x11 primary selection with mouse
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 02:09:44 -0400

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Hi, I'm writing a clipboard manager and notice some odd behaviour with
emacs.
It seems to be setting the primary selection while mouse button is down and
not on button up. So what happens is that you're continuously setting the
selection as the user fiddles the mouse the highlight just the text they
want.

I'm guessing this is because you're  just using the same code as keyboard
highlighting.  doing it only on button up will reduce your traffic quite a
bit... and allow me to not make an ugly hack 4x bigger than the regular
code just to deal with emacs properly.
Thanks.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Johannes Martinez <spamreceiver23 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 49728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49728: x11 primary selection with mouse
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 20:19:40 +0200

Johannes Martinez <spamreceiver23 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, I'm writing a clipboard manager and notice some odd behaviour with
> emacs.  It seems to be setting the primary selection while mouse
> button is down and not on button up. So what happens is that you're
> continuously setting the selection as the user fiddles the mouse the
> highlight just the text they want.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

You didn't say what Emacs version you saw this in -- is this still
happening in recent Emacs versions?  I had a very quick look at
`gui-set-selection' in Emacs 29, and it seems to be called on mouse-up
there.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Johannes Martinez <spamreceiver23 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 49728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49728: x11 primary selection with mouse
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:22:24 +0200

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Johannes Martinez <spamreceiver23 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> that was quite a while ago so I don't know.  whatever was current in Ubuntu at the
> time.
>
> emacs 29 still isn't avalaible there.

Can you reproduce it with whatever is current in Ubuntu now?

Message #16 received at 49728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Johannes Martinez <spamreceiver23 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 49728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49728: x11 primary selection with mouse
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:19:32 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Can you reproduce it with whatever is current in Ubuntu now?

More information was requested, but no response was given within a
month, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please respond to this email and we'll reopen the bug report.

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