From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: copy/paste to/from emacs Date: 22 Jul 2005 16:00:02 +1000 Message-ID: <87irz3l6sd.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: <42dff22a$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au> Reply-To: timx@spamto.devnul.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122012354 21946 80.91.229.2 (22 Jul 2005 06:05:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 06:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 22 08:05:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dvqed-0008SC-SI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dvqgl-0007YZ-Ck for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 02:07:15 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp1-192.lns1.syd3.internode.on.net Original-X-Trace: duster.adelaide.on.net 1122012003 59.167.1.192 (22 Jul 2005 15:30:03 +0950) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-north.connect.com.au!news-south.connect.com.au!duster.adelaide.on.net!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132565 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28083 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28083 Haizi Zheng writes: > If you want to copy some text from emacs, and then paste it in another > application in X environment, you can have try as add the line below to > you .emacs file: > > (global-set-key [C-f11] 'clipboard-kill-ring-save) > > This will add a new bind, here is contrl-f11, to replace the default M-w > when copying, then in the other application, the normal paste operation > will work. > > By this method, there are two key-bindings, respectively take charge of > the internal-copy-paste affairs and that between eamcs and other > applications. I admit that this method is a little ugly, is there > anyone who has better solution on this issue? > I just use mouse button 2 to paste into other applications Tim -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!