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Re: Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t?


From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
Subject: Re: Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t?
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:16:07 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux)

Eric Hanchrow <address@hidden> writes:

> I think beginner's lives would be easier if x-select-enable-clipboard
> defaulted to t -- then Emacs would work the way most other
> applications do, namely: when you select some text, you can then paste
> it into other applications.

Unfortunately, because of limitations in X, settings this means that
getting selections from programs like xterm that use only the primary
selection does not work very reliably.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard




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