From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to make most functions don't modify X CLIPBOARD? Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 09:13:54 +0200 Message-ID: <83czy59wwd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87im7xkf2q.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24618"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 16 08:14:21 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l0fmu-0006K2-VA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 08:14:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56992 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0fmt-0000Zr-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:14:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0fmT-0000ZH-6H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:13:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50433) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0fmS-0006Kl-Vd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:13:52 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3116 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l0fmS-0000WT-Ev for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:13:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87im7xkf2q.fsf@gmail.com> (message from doltes on Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:31:09 -0500) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127273 Archived-At: > From: doltes > Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:31:09 -0500 > > I've noticed that the following functions insert the killed content to > the CLIPBOARD. > > + kill-region (C-w) > + kill-line (C-k) > + kill-word (M-d) > + backward-kill-word (M-DEL) > > The only function I want to be able to modify the CLIPBOARD is > "kill-ring-save" (M-w). > > The reason I want to do this is because I suppose that whenever one of > those functions (presented in the list above) is executed, the content > is copied to both the "kill ring" and the CLIPBOARD, and I don't want my > computer to use resources inserting something, into the X clipboard, > which is not going to be pasted to another application. > > Is there any way to do this? You want to avoid copying only to the X clipboard, or also to the X selection? Depending on the answer, either change the value of select-enable-clipboard or of interprogram-cut-function.