From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: selection-coding-system and pasting to Firefox Date: 01 Jun 2005 11:55:50 +0100 Message-ID: <87is0ymjm1.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> Reply-To: brendan.halpin@ul.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117625107 13853 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2005 11:25:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 11:25:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 01 13:25:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdRLG-0000UT-9S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:24:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdRQX-0001ar-2M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 07:30:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 0ZdZuRO7j3Q1vWKvn/A/CgaRkPIkatrOSk/3DLZt/yXYEQOl7z User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131661 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:27121 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27121 I've had problems pasting from Emacs 21 to firefox (under Debian), and have stumbled on a solution: M-x set-selection-coding-system RET iso-latin-1-unix RET I can now paste to firefox (and paste strings with accented characters to xclipboard, which was my workaround). Question: what do I lose or risk by setting selection-coding-system away from the default, compound-text-with-extensions? Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html