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

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 27.06.2012 19:15, schrieb Aurélien Aptel:
> Well, it was longer than expected... Turns out if you don't deactive
> the mark, emacs copies the regular active region. My guess is it
> corresponds to mouse selection: once a region is selected it is copied
> to the primary selection.
>
> (defun my-copy-rect-to-primary ()
>    (interactive)
>    (when (region-active-p)
>      (let ((text (mapconcat 'identity
>                             (extract-rectangle
>                              (region-beginning)
>                              (region-end)) "\n")))
>        (deactivate-mark) ;; lost 30mn because of this
>        (x-set-selection 'PRIMARY text)
>        (message "%s" text))))

Thanks!

It might pay to name it "-rectangle-" instead of "-rect-", as the latter is also part of 
"directory" for example,
which might inflate the output of M-x apropos NAME

Cheers,

Andreas