From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving X selection? 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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:103080 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden writes: > 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) I just found out that I've got a program called klipper running which synchronizes both. *blush* -- Have you ever considered how much text can fit in eighty columns? Given that a signature typically contains up to four lines of text, this space allows you to attach a tremendous amount of valuable information to your messages. Seize the opportunity and don't waste your signature on bullshit that nobody cares about.