From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:42:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tygtfmhh.fsf@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4D41E53F.9070700@harpegolden.net
On Thu, Jan 27 2011, David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> First place in your ~/.emacs:
>
> (global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-at-click)
>
> Then do:
>
> mouse-drag-copy-region t
> select-active-regions nil
> x-select-enable-primary t
> x-select-enable-clipboard nil
>
> I also acknowledge the customisations are confusing. I still do not
> see a way to make a saner scheme without breaking some source-code
> backward compatibility (n.b. a saner scheme should be possible with
> "user visible behaviour" backward compatibility.)
Thanks. If these instructions are added to NEWS, us old timers
would be happy, I think.
manoj
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-28 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-27 2:31 The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse Manoj Srivastava
2011-01-27 2:39 ` Miles Bader
2011-01-27 3:33 ` Manoj Srivastava
2011-01-27 7:49 ` Stefan Reichör
2011-01-27 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 10:36 ` Manoj Srivastava
2011-01-27 21:41 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-27 21:35 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-01-28 8:42 ` Manoj Srivastava [this message]
2011-01-28 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-28 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-29 19:06 ` David De La Harpe Golden
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