From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Silvio Levy <levy@msri.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mouseless copying to clipboard
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:05:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28CFB444-9153-408E-A07E-7B15BE549B3F@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120113203043.6BB521810C9@neo.msri.org>
Am 13.1.2012 um 21:30 schrieb Silvio Levy:
> The problem is that I like to use emacs -nw for reasons I
> won't go into, and it doesn't seem to work. That is, if i run
>
> (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
>
> and then set mark, move point, M-w, the selection is not saved to my
> X-clipboard. I've confirmed it works when I call emacs without the -nw
> option.
This variable's name tells you that is specific to exactly one windowing system, the X11 Windows System. One should not assume that it is available with other windowing systems (NextStep/Apple, MS) or no windowing system at all.
--
Greetings
Pete
Wasting time is an important part of living.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-13 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-13 20:30 mouseless copying to clipboard Silvio Levy
2012-01-13 21:05 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2012-01-13 22:17 ` Jay Belanger
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2012-01-13 21:12 Silvio Levy
2012-01-13 21:35 ` Ludwig, Mark
2012-01-13 22:57 Silvio Levy
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