bug#77857: [PATCH] Let eww-copy-page-url append to existing kill, Re: bug#77857: [PATCH] Let eww-copy-page-url append to existing kill

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  77857@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 14:54:27 +0530
> 
> Stefan Kangas writes:
> 
> > Makes sense to me, but I think we should make it optional somehow.  It's
> > not the typical use case, and it changes current behavior.
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
> > That's an incompatible change in behavior, no?
> 
> Well... no (isn't it?). It only happens with 'C-M-w' before 'w', which
> currently has no effect: (info "(emacs) Appending Kills").

That's the change: previously Emacs produced different results in this
case.  People might not expect the 'w' command to do that, they might
expect that their previous kill remains intact.