From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 20:25:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <61617a52-eec6-48c2-9b5b-7d49decd0b89@googlegroups.com> References: <20130103225809.GC13649@hysteria.proulx.com> <2D113F6751EB4E7F8003DD556B818ED4@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357273558 15019 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2013 04:25:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 04:25:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 04 05:26:15 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TqyrE-0000Ko-8r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:26:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tqyqy-0003yJ-T0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:25:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54587) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tqyqr-0003yB-L9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:25:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tqyqp-0002va-0f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:25:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-gg0-f190.google.com ([209.85.161.190]:38157) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tqyqo-0002vP-Q5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:25:46 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-gg0-f190.google.com with SMTP id r27so9425416ggj.7 for ; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:25:45 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.50.42.134 with SMTP id o6mr5030875igl.5.1357273545153; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:25:45 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=175.136.230.202; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 175.136.230.202 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-IP: 175.136.230.202 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.161.190 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:88431 Archived-At: On Friday, 4 January 2013 08:12:57 UTC+8, Bob Proulx wrote: > > "The Problem" was loss of emacs keyboard interaction with the X Window > primary selection cut buffer between v23 and v24. Cutting with the > mouse in some other X window application puts the text into the X > Windows cut buffer also known as the primary selection. Actually cut buffers and the primary selection are not the same thing. Cut buffers are an older method of transferring text between applications, which have been obsolete for decades, and for which support was removed in Emacs 24. The primary selection is what you are used to using. > For me these changes broke my X applications. I guess I am not using > any application that uses the clipboard. To use the clipboard in any application, you generally need to do so explicitly, either using the keyboard shortcuts for Copy and Paste, or using menus. For the primary selection, it is whatever was last highlighted by the mouse. > For me the main X > applications from which I cut text from are Xterm, Firefox, Chromium, > other random programs but I will ignore Xterm from this discussion > since it is a venerable old program. For sure, Firefox and Chromium support the clipboard as well as primary. Xterm maybe not unless it is actually some other "wrapper" for xterm such as kterm or gnome-terminal.