Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse

[Miles Bader]

Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> writes:
>  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 agree, this was very nice behavior.

>         What changes do I need to make to get this?

I've not found a tenable way to simulate the old behavior with the new
code.

-Miles

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