* Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t?
@ 2007-09-27 14:19 Eric Hanchrow
2007-09-27 19:16 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-09-28 5:00 ` Jan Djärv
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eric Hanchrow @ 2007-09-27 14:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
I think beginner's lives would be easier if x-select-enable-clipboard
defaulted to t -- then Emacs would work the way most other
applications do, namely: when you select some text, you can then paste
it into other applications.
--
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word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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2007-09-27 14:19 Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t? Eric Hanchrow
@ 2007-09-27 19:16 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-09-28 5:00 ` Jan Djärv
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From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard @ 2007-09-27 19:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Hanchrow; +Cc: emacs-devel
Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> writes:
> I think beginner's lives would be easier if x-select-enable-clipboard
> defaulted to t -- then Emacs would work the way most other
> applications do, namely: when you select some text, you can then paste
> it into other applications.
Unfortunately, because of limitations in X, settings this means that
getting selections from programs like xterm that use only the primary
selection does not work very reliably.
--
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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* Re: Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t?
2007-09-27 14:19 Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t? Eric Hanchrow
2007-09-27 19:16 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
@ 2007-09-28 5:00 ` Jan Djärv
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jan Djärv @ 2007-09-28 5:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Hanchrow; +Cc: emacs-devel
Eric Hanchrow skrev:
> I think beginner's lives would be easier if x-select-enable-clipboard
> defaulted to t -- then Emacs would work the way most other
> applications do, namely: when you select some text, you can then paste
> it into other applications.
>
The text you copy/kill in Emacs (M-w, C-w) are saved in the clipboard. I
don't think other applications autmatically put stuff in the clipboard.
Usually they use C-c, C-x and such.
Jan D.
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