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From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Kill and yank (AKA cut and paste) from other X apps
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 21:50:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <848ystlc6s.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87el2m3inm.fsf@wassern.consult-meyers.com

A. L. Meyers <me@privacy.net> writes:

> How can one kill and yank (AKA cut and paste) text in other applications
> in X to and from Emacs, please?  Tried to kill an email address in
> Mozilla and yank it into an Emacs mail buffer but it hasn't worked yet.

I just drag it with the mouse in Mozilla, and then I can use either
mouse-2 or C-y in Emacs.  The following snippet from my .emacs may be
relevant:

(setq mouse-sel-default-bindings 'interprogram-cut-paste)
(mouse-sel-mode 1)
-- 
This line is not blank.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-26 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-25 19:55 Kill and yank (AKA cut and paste) from other X apps A. L. Meyers
2003-05-26 19:50 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-05-27  7:50   ` Paolo Gianrossi

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