From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Silvio Levy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mouseless copying to clipboard Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:57:36 -0800 Message-ID: <20120113225736.36734180FD3@neo.msri.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326495470 15990 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2012 22:57:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 13 23:57:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rlq49-0006Xf-AD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:57:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58959 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rlq48-0000GB-SQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rlq44-0000G6-GV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:57:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rlq43-0006Un-1T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:57:40 -0500 Original-Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17]:52689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rlq42-0006Ua-Sd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:57:38 -0500 Original-Received: from neo.msri.org (75-101-50-210.dsl.static.sonic.net [75.101.50.210]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C414154073; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:57:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by neo.msri.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 36734180FD3; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:57:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from neo.msri.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by neo.msri.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200CE180CCA; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:57:36 -0800 (PST) In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:17:12 -0600 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 66.117.140.17 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83488 Archived-At: Hi Jay - you're great! It worked as soon as I ran M-x turn-on-xclip. (I found out about that by looking in xclip.el - some hook calls is but it's apparently not being run by default.) Silvio > Hi Silvio! > > > I'd like to be able to copy text to my X-clipboard without using the > > mouse. The problem is that I like to use emacs -nw for reasons I > > won't go into, and it doesn't seem to work. > ... > > Is there a solution? > > If you install xclip (which can be installed with apt-get, on Ubuntu > 11.10 at least) and load the lisp file located at > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/xclip.el > then it should work. > > Jay > >