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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: users and selection changes
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:11:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3tyknn4ub.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83aamfdc1c.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I only know the answer for the following question:
>
>   Why does selecting text with the mouse inside Emacs doesn't make the
>   selected text end up in the kill ring and in the X clipboard?
>
> The answer to that is customize mouse-drag-copy-region to a non-nil
> value.

(setq x-select-enable-primary t)

helps a bit too, doesn't it?

> If the above question is not what you meant, please explain what is
> the meaning of "copying something in X".  Specifically, what gestures
> are needed for "copying something", and does "in X" mean in the Emacs
> session or in some other X application?

If I double-click a word in Firefox, and then say `C-y' in Emacs, I'm
not getting that word yanked in Emacs any more.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-15 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-11  5:15 Custom themes Chong Yidong
2010-10-11  7:48 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-10-11 15:34   ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-11 16:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-11 17:38   ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-11 21:04 ` Eric Lilja
2010-10-12 14:08   ` Joel James Adamson
2010-10-12 20:25 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-12 23:40   ` Eric Lilja
2010-10-13  0:04   ` Christoph
2010-10-13  2:15     ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-13 20:06   ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-10-14  4:23     ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-14  4:58       ` Miles Bader
2010-10-14 13:18       ` users and selection changes [was: Custom themes] Drew Adams
2010-10-14 18:35         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-14 20:51           ` Drew Adams
2010-10-14 21:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-14 22:09               ` Drew Adams
2010-10-15  9:30                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-15  9:34                   ` users and selection changes Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-15  9:45                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-15 10:11                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-10-15 10:16                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-15  9:48                     ` Miles Bader
2010-10-15 10:18                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-15 13:47                         ` Miles Bader
2010-10-15 14:25                           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-15 15:10                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-22 10:05                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-15 16:30                       ` Drew Adams
2010-10-15 19:08                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-15 20:46                       ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-13  0:26 ` Custom themes Stefan Monnier
2010-10-13  2:14   ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-13 10:20     ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-13 15:06       ` CHENG Gao
2010-10-13 16:05       ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-14 15:53         ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-14 16:47           ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-16 18:33             ` Chong Yidong

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