From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Kill and yank (AKA cut and paste) from other X apps Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 21:50:35 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <848ystlc6s.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <87el2m3inm.fsf@wassern.consult-meyers.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053978872 21309 80.91.224.249 (26 May 2003 19:54:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 19:54:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 26 21:54:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19KO3D-0005XS-00 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 21:54:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19KO40-0008N3-I0 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2003 15:55:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.teledanmark.no!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p50876f5e.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50876f5e.dip.t-dialin.net (80.135.111.94) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1053978655 3774249 80.135.111.94 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MBwsU9UfPeN3uf4lskBvD0tdgxg= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113706 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10200 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10200 A. L. Meyers 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.