From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B.T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: selection-coding-system and pasting to Firefox Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 11:30:49 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <119ropb9chh0q9e@corp.supernews.com> References: <87is0ymjm1.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117644058 17946 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2005 16:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 01 18:40:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdWEb-0005o6-TE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:38:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdWJv-0002LU-Bt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:43:55 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-12!sn-xit-08!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 24 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131682 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27142 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27142 "Brendan Halpin" wrote in message news:87is0ymjm1.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie... > I've had problems pasting from Emacs 21 to firefox (under Debian), > and have stumbled on a solution: > > M-x set-selection-coding-system RET iso-latin-1-unix RET > > I can now paste to firefox (and paste strings with accented > characters to xclipboard, which was my workaround). > > Question: what do I lose or risk by setting selection-coding-system > away from the default, compound-text-with-extensions? > > Brendan Don't know. The keybinding for this is C-x RET x. ls there a way to make this work in w32? I want to copy from emacs buffer (utf-8) and paste into Outlook Express. Thanks, Ed