cannot copy clipboard to other applications

cannot copy clipboard to other applications

[Patrick Giraudoux]

Dear listers,

Strangely, I can copy clipboard from other applications to emacs (eg 
with gedit C-c and then C-y into emacs) but NOT from emacs to other 
applications (eg M-w in emacs and then C-v in gedit does not work). 
Character coding is utf-8.

After some googling I replaced the line

(setq selection-coding-system 'compount-text-with-extension)

with

(setq selection-coding-system 'compount-text)

in the ~/.emacs file but it did not help.

I am using Emacs 21.4.1 on Ubuntu 6.10

Any hint?

Patrick

Re: cannot copy clipboard to other applications

[Charles philip Chan]

On 24 Dec 2006, patrick.giraudoux@univ-fcomte.fr wrote:

> Strangely, I can copy clipboard from other applications to emacs (eg
> with gedit C-c and then C-y into emacs) but NOT from emacs to other
> applications (eg M-w in emacs and then C-v in gedit does not
> work). Character coding is utf-8.

Either just use "middle click paste" or setup your clipboard manager to
synchronize the clipboard with the primary selection.

Charles

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Re: cannot copy clipboard to other applications

[Rupert]

Charles philip Chan wrote:
> On 24 Dec 2006, patrick.giraudoux@univ-fcomte.fr wrote:
>
> > Strangely, I can copy clipboard from other applications to emacs (eg
> > with gedit C-c and then C-y into emacs) but NOT from emacs to other
> > applications (eg M-w in emacs and then C-v in gedit does not
> > work). Character coding is utf-8.
>
> Either just use "middle click paste" or setup your clipboard manager to
> synchronize the clipboard with the primary selection.
>
> Charles

You might want to try the elisp here in your .emacs file:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CopyAndPaste

Contrary to what Era Eriksson says, it works for me on Gnome/Linux.

Rupert

Re: cannot copy clipboard to other applications

[Charles philip Chan]

On 24 Dec 2006, rswarbrick@googlemail.com wrote:

> You might want to try the elisp here in your .emacs file:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CopyAndPaste

,----
| Emacs 21.2.1 & newer:
| 
|  (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
`----

Interesting. Never knew this variable existed. You learn something new
everyday. :-)

Charles

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Re: cannot copy clipboard to other applications

[PG]

Yes indeed, 

(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)

makes the trick perfectly (I have even just copied the command above from my
.emacs file....)

The middle button solution cannot be used here: I am working on a laptop
with a touchpad and just 2 buttons.

Thanks to everybody,

Patrick



Rupert-13 wrote:
> 
> 
> Charles philip Chan wrote:
>> On 24 Dec 2006, patrick.giraudoux@univ-fcomte.fr wrote:
>>
>> > Strangely, I can copy clipboard from other applications to emacs (eg
>> > with gedit C-c and then C-y into emacs) but NOT from emacs to other
>> > applications (eg M-w in emacs and then C-v in gedit does not
>> > work). Character coding is utf-8.
>>
>> Either just use "middle click paste" or setup your clipboard manager to
>> synchronize the clipboard with the primary selection.
>>
>> Charles
> 
> You might want to try the elisp here in your .emacs file:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CopyAndPaste
> 
> Contrary to what Era Eriksson says, it works for me on Gnome/Linux.
> 
> Rupert
> 
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Re: cannot copy clipboard to other applications

[Matthew Flaschen]

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Rupert wrote:
> You might want to try the elisp here in your .emacs file:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CopyAndPaste
> 
> Contrary to what Era Eriksson says, it works for me on Gnome/Linux.
> 
> Rupert

Excellent, this lets me get rid of the Klipper option, synchronize
clipboard and selection (I kept forgetting, and it makes it impossible
to paste over a selection).

Thanks.

Matthew


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Re: cannot copy clipboard to other applications

[Matthew Flaschen]

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PG wrote:
> The middle button solution cannot be used here: I am working on a laptop
> with a touchpad and just 2 buttons.

I agree that this solution is much better.  However, you can emulate
middle-click in general by pressing both buttons at the same time.

Matt Flaschen


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