Re: [dev] st: selecting text affects both primary and clipbaord

From: <k0ga_AT_shike2.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 09:26:50 +0100

>> I know this isn't a democracy, but I agree with Greg, it makes more
>> sense to only set PRIMARY, not CLIPBOARD, in selcopy. Removing the
>> clipboard-related lines from xsetsel seems to do the trick. I've
>> attached a patch that does just that.
>
> I agree here, it shouldn't modiy the CLIPBOARD seletction. Sometime
> is good to have different things in both selections. If nobady claims
> about it I will apply your patch.
>

You can see that a lot of people sent good reasons to don't apply
it.

> If the suckless powers that be don't want to apply this patch to the
> main branch, can we get it listed on http://st.suckless.org/patches/?

You can do it by yourself. Clone the wiki repository and push the
change.

Regards,
Received on Sat Feb 21 2015 - 09:26:50 CET

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