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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:33:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8338m1zxfj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <312bb049-db1f-4c18-b7a9-d40cb2cb1358@default>

> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:16:21 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
> But mouse-2 does not seem to paste what I've selected (even if I use
> `M-w'). I just get the error "No selection is available".

Selections don't work on text terminals, by design.  You will see that
on Windows mouse-2 does paste text cut/copied in another application,
but that's largely an incident, a side effect of implementation
details.  Copying into the clipboard from a text-terminal session is
disabled.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-09 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-08 19:00 select text without moving the point in graphical interface Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-08 19:11 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-08 19:34   ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-08 20:24     ` Drew Adams
2013-12-08 20:41       ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-08 22:13         ` Drew Adams
2013-12-09  1:53           ` Bob Proulx
2013-12-09  3:45           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <<83fvq2znym.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-12-09  5:17             ` Drew Adams
2013-12-09 16:20               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <<83bo0qyp1d.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-12-09 18:16                 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-09 18:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]                   ` <<8338m1zxfj.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-12-09 18:59                     ` Drew Adams
2013-12-08 21:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-12-08 22:58   ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-09 19:26     ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-12-10 18:58       ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-10 19:02         ` Drew Adams
2013-12-10 19:13         ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-12-10 19:26           ` Ernest Adrogué

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