Re: emacs 24: select-active-regions behavior

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:56:50 +0200
> 
> Now with Emacs-24, a region which is selected by shift-<arrow-keys>
> replaces the primary selection.  But with Emacs-23 I was able to:
> 
> 1. copy something (select it + C-Ins),
> 2. shift-select another piece of text and 
> 3. replace this piece of text by Shift-Ins with the text from 1.
> 
> With Emacs-24 this is a noop because text from 2. will be inserted into
> the primary selection and replaces itself in 3.

You can still do this:

 1. mark some text and type M-w, which puts the marked text into the
    clipboard (and the kill ring)
 2. shift-select another piece of text, and
 3. replace this piece of text by C-y

IOW, use the clipboard instead of the primary selection.