Re: Set X primary selection with Emacs in xterm

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Duncan Findlay <duncf@google.com> [2022-06-10 09:45]:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 7:39 AM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> >
> > * Duncan Findlay <duncf@google.com> [2022-06-03 08:24]:
> > > I frequently use Emacs over ssh and I'd really like to get both
> > > primary and clipboard selections to work as close as possible to
> > > running Emacs on X natively. I'd like to kill text in Emacs and have
> > > that show up in my system clipboard so I can paste into other
> > > applications.
> >
> > I have these settings and it works for me exactly how you explained
> > above.
> >
> > (setq select-enable-clipboard t)
> > (setq select-enable-primary t)
> 
> As I understand it, this configuration will cause killed text to be
> put in both your clipboard and primary selection buffers.
> 
> I suppose that technically meets the criteria I outlined above -- it
> should work identically over ssh and on X natively, but it's not quite
> what I meant.
> 
> > > Similarly, if I select text with mark and keyboard (or mouse with
> > > xterm-mouse-mode), I'd like it to update my local X's primary
> > > selection so I can middle-click to paste it elsewhere. I have two
> > > patches attached that got this working for me.
> >
> > For me your explained situation works without patches. I have the
> > above settings. But I may miss something as you mention
> > xterm-mouse-mode which I am not even using it ever. On my side it
> > works.
> 
> Sorry, I should have been more precise.
> 
> I would like the primary selection to be updated with the contents of
> the region, as described here:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Primary-Selection.html
> 
> This requires `select-active-regions' to be non-nil. Do you have this
> set in your configuration?

Yes, it is T in my configuration.

When I select region, I can use second (among three) mouse button to
insert selection into XTerm.

-- 
Jean

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