From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Morse Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: copy and paste doesn't work properly between other applications and emacs Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:02:57 -0500 Organization: yale Message-ID: <1166198577.12686.9.camel@localhost> Reply-To: tom.morse@yale.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166205617 3286 80.91.229.10 (15 Dec 2006 18:00:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 15 19:00:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GvHLr-0007pD-Gt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:00:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GvHLr-0008Ay-4b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:00:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GvFWa-0003mH-Ch for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GvFWY-0003jU-J4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:03:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GvFWY-0003jK-CW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:03:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.132.232.16] (helo=arwen.med.yale.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GvFWX-0008Ir-WD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:03:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.52] (pinky.med.yale.edu [130.132.217.241]) by email.med.yale.edu (PMDF V6.2-X17 #31085) with ESMTPS id <0JAB22X1GOL00I@email.med.yale.edu> for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:03:00 -0500 (EST) Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:56:29 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15463 Archived-At: emacs/os version: GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-05-18 on decompose.build.redhat.com (maybe this is more of a feature than a bug) feature description: When highlighted, text selections from mozilla or gedit can be pasted by pressing the middle mouse button in each other but not in emacs. Also the ctrl-c or ctrl-x copy and cut commands work in those but not in emacs (with the ctrl-v for paste). I suspect that you are aware of this. With the open source code why can't the way this is done in gedit for example be looked up and implemented in emacs?