Re: why does M-w (kill-ring-save) hurt so bad?
* Olivier Galibert:
| On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:12:57PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
| > This stuff has been heavily hacked on. Ben changed it so that things
| > always go through the clipboard by default, because that's the way
| > it's done on Windows and Windows users lose badly if you don't.
|
| So _that's_ why I can't use the cut buffer and the X copy/paste
| independently like I used to. Windows doesn't do it that way, so
| screw the X users. How typical. What next, MDI?
It is mentioned in the NEWS file (Help->What's New in XEmacs, which is how
I found it before), but it would help alot if it was also mentioned at the
top in a seperate BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES (shouting intentional)
section, /and/ similarly in the release notes.
-- René