Re: first copy & paste not working

[Mike Treseler <mike_treseler@comcast.net>]

Joe Bloggs wrote:
> I have the following lines my .emacs file for supporting cut & paste between applications:
> 
> (mouse-sel-mode 1)
> (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
> (setq interprogram-paste-function 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value)

I don't set these, but happen to have
t, nil, nil
as values right now.

> However, after starting emacs, the first cut/copy from within emacs is not recognized. In other words, the first time I do a yank, it pastes whatever I last copied outside emacs, even if I just did a cut/copy within emacs. I can only yank my emacs text if I repeat the emacs cut/copy, othewise it just keeps yanking the external text.
> Can anyone help?

I don't have this problem, but every once in a while,
I will have the opposite problem where my center
mouse button will paste an old emacs kill instead
of the text I just marked in some other X-app.

My work around is to bring up gedit and mark
some text and center button it into emacs.
For some reason, this clears the problem, and
my X-mouse cut/paste into emacs will work again.

I am using 21.3.1, but will be upgrading
soon to whatever SUSE 10.1 has.

         -- Mike Treseler