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The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse
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Manoj Srivastava |
Subject: |
The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:31:16 -0800 |
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Microsoft Gnus Express, Build 5.13 (5.13) |
Hi,
I have read the archives of this mailing list, and the release
notes of the latest release candidate, and I am left somewhat
confused. I am using the latest Emacs from Git.
This is what I have:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq
transient-mark-mode t ;show the marked region
;;; Behave like other X applications. This is confusing.
x-select-enable-primary t
x-select-enable-clipboard t ;;; cut/paste use clipboard
select-active-regions 'only ;;; temporarily active regions set the
;;; window selection.
mouse-drag-copy-region t ;;; copy dragged region to kill ring
)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
What I want is the behaviour I think I used to have in Emacs on
GNU/Linux X Windows:
1) Whatever text is pasted when I click <down-mouse-2>
(mouse-yank-primary?) should be the same thing yanked when I type
C-y (yank)
2) Conversely, text that is selected in Emacs, such that it is
inserted with a C-y (yank) should also be the text that is pasted
into, say, an xterm when I do a middle mouse click in there.
I often find that text selected in other X applications (which
is inserted in xterms and Emacs using the middle mouse button, is not
what is yanked using the keyboard. I cannot seem to reproduce this
reliably, but I have observed this often.
In Emacs, I select text by:
1) C-SPC (set-mark-command) C-f C-f M-w (kill-ring-save)
2) Down-mouse-1 drag-mouse-1 up-mouse-one (mouse-drag-region)
3) Down-mouse-1 Down-mouse-3 (mouse-save-then-kill
I would like each of these methods to copy things over so that a
middle mouse click in an xterm to paste the text in the region.
What changes do I need to make to get this?
manoj
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New systems generate new problems.
Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>
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- The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse,
Manoj Srivastava <=
- Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse, Miles Bader, 2011/01/26
- Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/27
- Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse, David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/01/28