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From: PG <pgiraudo@univ-fcomte.fr>
Subject: Re: cannot copy clipboard to other applications
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:21:50 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8041639.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1166966322.858386.268000@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-24 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2312.1166962979.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-24 12:41 ` cannot copy clipboard to other applications Charles philip Chan
2006-12-24 13:18   ` Rupert
2006-12-24 13:29     ` Charles philip Chan
2006-12-24 15:21     ` PG [this message]
2006-12-25  5:55       ` Matthew Flaschen
2006-12-25  4:38     ` Matthew Flaschen
2006-12-24 12:22 Patrick Giraudoux

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