From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving X selection? Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:04 +0100 Message-ID: <48B6E420.9090204@harpegolden.net> References: <20071012105022.6c8b174a@tweety> <874pgtfw1y.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <4713067D.2060504@swipnet.se> <87fy0cdvr6.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <471467FF.5070005@swipnet.se> <87vdxy2kwo.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <87tzdanllg.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219945557 9125 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2008 17:45:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Frank Schmitt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 28 19:46:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYlZl-0006Aw-6b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:46:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44794 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYlYm-0007eV-Om for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYlYg-0007dz-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:45:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYlYf-0007dd-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:45:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35828 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYlYf-0007da-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:40662) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KYlYe-0002qc-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:45:20 -0400 Original-Received: from golden1.harpegolden.net (unknown [86.45.10.133]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFB08089; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:12 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103079 Archived-At: Frank Schmitt wrote: > > They do? For me selecting text with the mouse (and doing nothing else) > and then pasting with Sift+Insert works in Emacs, Firefox, KDE > programs... > Peculiar. Firefox, or at least Iceweasel, and KDE Kedit on definitely insert CLIPBOARD for me upon shift-insert. Just in case: Are you mouse-selecting the text /in emacs/ with x-select-enable-clipboard set? 'Cos that'd make merely selecting the text /in emacs/ set CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY. If you merely select text with the mouse /in firefox/, say, (thereby _probably_ setting PRIMARY), is it inserted upon shift-insert in firefox? The other thing you could do is use a command line tool: "xsel -b" returns CLIPBOARD and "xsel -p" PRIMARY. (PRIMARY conventionally (fd.o conventionally) mapping to the currently selected text)