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* How to copy from a Java app running under x11 into a GNU Emacs  buffer?
@ 2010-05-18 14:26 Terrence Brannon
  2010-05-19 14:26 ` Terrence Brannon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Terrence Brannon @ 2010-05-18 14:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

As this screencast shows:

http://www.screencast.com/users/terrence_work/folders/Jing/media/d3354f9e-b635-43bb-bdd9-69820e9ef38f

copying from a java app running under x11 and pasting into gnome-
terminal works just fine.

However, there is no obvious way to paste into GNU Emacs.



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* Re: How to copy from a Java app running under x11 into a GNU Emacs  buffer?
  2010-05-18 14:26 How to copy from a Java app running under x11 into a GNU Emacs buffer? Terrence Brannon
@ 2010-05-19 14:26 ` Terrence Brannon
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Terrence Brannon @ 2010-05-19 14:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

same answer applies:

I've been gifted with the answer:

Thanks to erstazi in #vbox on irc.freenode.net, I have an answer based
on http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyAndPaste

you simply have to do this:


    (if (eq window-system 'x) (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t))


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