Well its taken longer than I though but I have finally finished rationalising select so that the windows behaviour is much more like the X behaviour. I have generalised much of the code so that there is virtually no duplication. All the selection converter stuff now works for mswindows. Next the font-menu .... I will apply this to cvs. andy 1999-05-21 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; * xselect.c: deleted. * symsinit.h: declare select initialisation. * select.h: new file. declare commonly used select functions and variables. * select.c: new file. generalised from xselect.c. (clean_local_selection_data): moved from xselect.c. (get_local_selection): ditto. device specific pieces called via a devmeth. (handle_selection_clear): ditto. (Fown_selection_internal): renamed and generalised from Fx_own_selection_internal. moved from xselect.c. (Fdisown_selection_internal): ditto. (Fselection_owner_p): ditto. (Fselection_exists_p): ditto. (Fget_selection_internal): ditto. (syms_of_select): new function. QXXXX values moved from xselect.c (vars_of_select): new function. selection_converter_alist, lost_selection_hooks moved and renamed from xselect.c * select-x.c: renamed from xselect.c. (x_own_selection): converted to device specific. non-X-specific bits moved to select.c. (x_get_foreign_selection): ditto. (x_disown_selection): ditto. (x_selection_exists_p): ditto. (console_type_create_select_x): new function. * select-msw.c (mswindows_own_selection): new device method to set the clipboard when we 'own' the selection. (mswindows_get_foreign_selection): new device method to get the clipboard. (mswindows_disown_selection): new device method to delete the selection when we 'disown' it. (console_type_create_select_mswindows): new function. * emacs.c (main_1): add select to things to initialise. * console.h (struct console_methods): new console methods for selection. * Makefile.in.in (x_objs): xselect.c renamed to select-x.c 1999-05-21 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; * x-select.el (x-select-convert-to-text): (x-selected-text-type): (x-get-selection): (xselect-convert-to-string): (xselect-convert-to-compound-text): (xselect-convert-to-length): (xselect-convert-to-targets): (xselect-convert-to-delete): (xselect-convert-to-filename): (xselect-convert-to-charpos): (xselect-convert-to-lineno): (xselect-convert-to-colno): (xselect-convert-to-sourceloc): (xselect-convert-to-os): (xselect-convert-to-host): (xselect-convert-to-user): (xselect-convert-to-class): (xselect-convert-to-name): (xselect-convert-to-integer): (xselect-convert-to-atom): (xselect-convert-to-identity): functions renamed from x-* and moved to select.el. (x-get-secondary-selection): use rename get-selection. (x-get-clipboard): ditto. (x-own-selection): moved to select.el. (x-valid-simple-selection-p): ditto. (x-dehilight-selection): ditto. (x-own-clipboard): ditto. (x-disown-selection): ditto. * x-mouse.el (x-yank-function): moved to mouse.el. (x-insert-selection): ditto. (x-set-point-and-move-selection): use renamed function. * select.el (selected-text-type): moved and renamed from x-select.el. (selection-owner-p): moved to C. (selection-exists-p): ditto. (get-cutbuffer): new device method. (get-selection): generalised and moved from x-select.el. (own-selection): moved x-own-selection functionality into here. (dehilight-selection): renamed and moved from x-select.el. (own-clipboard): functionality moved from x-select.el using new generic C builtins. (disown-clipboard): ditto. (select-convert-to-text): (select-convert-to-string): (select-convert-to-compound-text): (select-convert-to-length): (select-convert-to-targets): (select-convert-to-delete): (select-convert-to-filename): (select-convert-to-charpos): (select-convert-to-lineno): (select-convert-to-colno): (select-convert-to-sourceloc): (select-convert-to-os): (select-convert-to-host): (select-convert-to-user): (select-convert-to-class): (select-convert-to-name): (select-convert-to-integer): (select-convert-to-atom): (select-convert-to-identity): new functions renamed from x-* and moved from x-select.el. * mouse.el (mouse-consolidated-yank): subsume x-yank-function into here and use as the default window-system mouse yank. (insert-selection): generalised and moved from x-mouse.el. (own-clipboard): moved to C. * msw-select.el (mswindows-selection-owned-p): deleted. (mswindows-own-selection): generalised and moved to select.el. (mswindows-disown-selection): generalised and moved to C. (mswindows-selection-owner-p): ditto.