Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Martin Geisler <m...@lazybytes.net> wrote:
>> Martin Geisler <m...@lazybytes.net> writes:
>>
>>> Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/wiki/upcoming-release-notes
>>>>
>>>> Please review and let me know if I left out something significant,
>>>> or made any major mistakes.
>>>
>>> I just read through the notes and didn't spot any mistakes.
>>>
>>> But I would like to ask why the copyhash function has been removed?
>>> I have been using it a lot and really liked it. Right-clicking and
>>> choosing "Copy Hash" is not the same, IMHO.
>>
>> Oh, and the "Copy Hash" menu does not work as I would expect on my
>> system, i.e., the hash is not pasted when I middle-click.
>>
>> I just recalled a conversation about this on IRC, something about
>> there being two clipboards in X -- and indeed, when I do Ctrl+v in
>> Iceweasel, then I see the hash. So TortoiseHg makes the hash the
>> Clipboard selection when I expect it as the Primary selection.
>>
>> I see the copied hash as a temporary thing, especially when it was
>> copied by simply selecting a changeset, and so the Primary selection
>> seems like the right one?
>>
>> I found the explanation on Clipboard/Primary selections here:
>>
>>  http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
>
> Unfortunately, you may be the only one to miss this going away.  If
> you would like to re-introduce the configurable as an undocumented
> feature for the default branch, I would be happy to take a patch for
> it.  It may be as easy as reversing the changeset that removed the
> feature from history.py.

Cool, I'll see what I can come up with :-)

-- 
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