From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: x-clipboard-yank insert kill-ring entry instead of primary selection
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:34:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831rqbyor4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73781ecb442d054133e5fe81bd0c1805@posteo.net> (mickbert@posteo.net)
> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:57:00 +0100
> From: mickbert@posteo.net
>
> > I suggest to read the section "Selection changes" in NEWS, it explains
> > what has changed in this area and how to customize Emacs to get back
> > the old pre-Emacs 24 behavior.
>
> I read it all, and now I have clearer image of the "copy/paste
> universe", but
> I can not find anything helpful yet - that is, a command to yank from
> primary selection, other than mouse-yank-primary (which can only be
> bound to mouse event).
>
> even searching for command matching *select* or *primary* does not
> give any interesting result. Is it possible that there is not any
> command
> to yank from primary selection?
Did you try customizing x-select-enable-clipboard to nil and
x-select-enable-primary to t? AFAIU, if you do that, then C-y will
yank from the primary selection, if a primary selection exists.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-02 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-28 8:31 x-clipboard-yank insert kill-ring entry instead of primary selection mickbert
2020-02-28 12:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-28 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 9:57 ` mickbert
2020-03-02 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-02 16:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-02 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-02 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-03 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier
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