From: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
Cc: 12750@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12750: Highlighting text no longer works
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:02:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKRnqN+zDGQSG8WGGNEmUHnuLfN7n9n_ZJi2FEhjCbHK1yoHhg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87liepejc3.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Chong,
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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.
Hmm. OK, I use this many ways. Sometimes, I click button 2, sometimes
I type Ctl-Y. Either way, I am very habituated to the selected text
being pasted.
I want to avoid having to remember Ctl-W/Ctl-C *ESPECIALLY* because I
don't even have Cmd-C working on my Mac. I have to use the pull down menu
to access "edit->copy". That becomes especially interesting when my
mouse crosses other emacs windows because if the mouse touches one
of them, then the selected text is no longer current and "edit->copy" grabs
a different block of text.
So, here's what I want: I want the selected text to be inserted into all
buffers that relate to pasting of any sort. If Mouse-2 and Ctl-Y refer to
different buffers, then both buffers should have the selected text.
How do I do this?
Thank you so much!! Regards, Bruce
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-29 12:02 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
2012-10-29 12:02 ` Bruce Korb [this message]
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