On Mon, Mar 9, 2015, at 04:15 PM, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Can you please elaborate where you use both selections in parallel for > different tasks and where st does interfere?
Hi Christoph. Well actually yes I do use both selections independently. I use clipboard selection when I explicitly command cut/copy/paste, and I use primary selection when I implicitly copy/paste (i.e. when selecting with mouse-button-1 and pasting with mouse-button-2). I keep track of them separately in my mind and they have different contents and I use them for different purposes. I find this feature quite useful. Having st set both selections when I'm just selecting with the mouse destroys my clipboard selection data. It is all explained in the web page that I've referred to several times already. But this discussion happened already on this list, and despite the obvious correctness of what I'm saying here, the powers that be preferred to keep the current broken behavior, so the correct behavior is now a patch on the wiki. -- http://www.fastmail.com - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free