From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
Cc: 12750@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12750: Highlighting text no longer works
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:08:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87liepejc3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKRnqNKai5fzNd1xP5N4oaoLa=LrWuvYT1AQZcgUM4WorOPApw@mail.gmail.com> (Bruce Korb's message of "Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:57:56 -0700")
Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com> writes:
>> (setq select-active-regions nil)
>> (setq mouse-drag-copy-region 't)
>> (setq x-select-enable-primary 't)
>> (setq x-select-enable-clipboard nil)
>> (global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-at-click)
>
> I do need explicit instructions. This didn't work. I want to
> highlight and paste and highlight and yank. Both and. This isn't
> working.
You have to be more specific than that. With a .emacs file, your
previous recipe
> 1. left click the end of some text
> 2. right click the start of some text
> 3. alt-shift-5 ctl-y (query replace followed by paste)
does indeed yank the text into the minibuffer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-29 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-28 16:16 bug#12750: Highlighting text no longer works Bruce Korb
2012-10-28 16:32 ` Bruce Korb
2012-10-28 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-28 20:14 ` Bruce Korb
2012-10-28 20:57 ` Bruce Korb
2012-10-29 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-29 8:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-29 14:07 ` Bruce Korb
2012-10-29 15:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-29 9:08 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-10-29 12:02 ` Bruce Korb
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