Re: emacs24/gtk3 - how to mark rectangle of to primary selection?

[Paul K]

Peter and Jonathan,
thank You for Your answer.

These solutions seem to be a bit compicated,
so how about sending marked/selected rectangle to clipboard selection
with or without cua-mode?

best regards,
Paul

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:24:12 +0200, Paul K <mafeuser@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hallo.
>>
>> I tried to do it with cua-mode, but no luck.
>>
>> Have You got any ideas?
>
> You could do it step-wise:
> Kill a rectangle. set-mark-command (c-SPC) at one corner, kill-rectangle (C-x
> r k) at the opposite corner. Then undo (C-_) if you don't want the
> text to be lost.
>
> Then go to the scratch buffer and yank-rectangle (C-x r y). Then do
> whatever you normally do to highlight with the mouse etc to get it
> into the primary selection.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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