From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mouseless copying to clipboard Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:05:09 +0100 Message-ID: <28CFB444-9153-408E-A07E-7B15BE549B3F@Web.DE> References: <20120113203043.6BB521810C9@neo.msri.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326488734 3482 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2012 21:05:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Silvio Levy Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 13 22:05:22 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 1RloJO-00065i-IF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:05:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39570 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RloJN-0007Ir-Me for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:05:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RloJH-0007Ib-NU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:05:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RloJG-0007Gs-Gd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:05:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:52721) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RloJG-0007Gn-8A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:05:14 -0500 Original-Received: from moweb002.kundenserver.de (moweb002.kundenserver.de [172.19.20.108]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 831F61BFA0000 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:05:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from peter-dyballas-macbook-pro.fritz.box ([88.153.242.186]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb002) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MGiPJ-1RqVHj3Yun-00DF8c; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:05:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20120113203043.6BB521810C9@neo.msri.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:af+X98qCNr1Tc1VciQao4Evi9E5iwCk7YwQg2gCys8f vzLDU7qMWeVg58G19F6Rqpv3Gg/JQXoM6YihRxONzOFitNY+6w KV6IH4q5ZQsO7bXVN5LAoazcT9flxpaBofij0kjuCMeXD0MW69 sNFtBq80C2Jus5GG9PKhmNhGvavNj03D9IaacT1tRDGycDPSUP kvmTiLKYcRlyEHoyaNbDw== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 217.72.192.227 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:83484 Archived-At: 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 >=20 > (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t) >=20 > 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.