From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard Date: 12 Jan 2004 21:00:15 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87fzekv3xc.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <20040111002614.GM6119@luna.mooo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073971179 22070 80.91.224.253 (13 Jan 2004 05:19:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 06:19:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AgGxh-0001tg-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 06:19:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AgHqE-0006GA-3N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:15:54 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!c-24-6-105-98.client.comcast.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-6-105-98.client.comcast.net (24.6.105.98) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1073970015 12688401 24.6.105.98 ([218005]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120028 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15970 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15970 Lee> I do understand how the X selection mechanism works. I've even Lee> programmed it in C/Xlib. That does not stop Emacs from Lee> misbehaving, though. Carsten> Well, Lee you are right. I just experienced a lot of trouble Carsten> copying text from gtk2-emacs to gtk2-mozilla-firebird and vice Carsten> versa. Either via X selection or CUA-like key Carsten> strokes. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. This has been discussed here at least twice before :-( I reported it to RMS, and he said "use gdb on Emacs". Which I won't, because recompiling Emacs on my laptop takes more than an hour. Maybe someone with more resources can follow this path and finally get this fixed? Carsten> a good idea making emacs compatible to the gtk2 toolkit, and Carsten> the gnome desktop environment. I don't get the connection here (how it would solve the problem), and anyway if you mean make gtk2 (and _especially_ gnome) a dependency of Emacs, I am most definitely against. -- Nothing can be explained to a stone. Or to a stoned person, either.