Re: pasting text from other program in emacs

[Javier]

Many thanks for all this info.

I have found another way of solving the behaviour of emacs in
console: run it through gnu/screen; that way the effect of the
mouse buttons is processed by gnu/screen, not by emacs.




Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:27:38 +0100, Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> writes:
>> 
>> > Javier <javier@nospam.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> Does anybody know how to do to paste text from external programs
>> >> into an emacs window?  I am using emacs 23.2.1 and debian Squeeze.
>> >
>> > $ apt-get remove emacs23-gtk
>> > $ apt-get install emacs23-lucid
>> 
>> This seems very strange advice. How does this solve the problem better
>> than the documented emacs clipboard variables?
> 
> This has been a very long thread and I may have forgotten now, but I
> think the original poster had problems only with copy/paste in `emacs
> -nw`.
> 
> Hence, emacs22-nox which may be optimised for terminal copy/paste.
> Like most of us here I use graphical Emacs though.
> 
> In any case, I've been doing some reading tonight and found this
> interesting link:
> 
> http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2006/10/22/emacs-copypaste-and-x/
> 
> Which leads to this:
> http://hugoheden.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/copypaste-with-emacs-in-terminal/
> 
> The provided code makes use of xsel to set the X selection for
> terminal based Emacs.
> 
> And, this seems to have been covered here before as the code in the
> last article has a credit "to Nikolaj Schumacher and Miles Bader on
> the help-gnu-emacs mailing list".
> 
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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