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 things out of Emacs Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 18:07:30 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87k5v5kzi5.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <87y7jle8pt.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179564160 16355 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2007 08:42:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 08:42:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 19 10:42:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HpKWK-00054C-6b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 10:42:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpKWI-0000gY-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 04:42:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!sn-xt-sjc-04!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zuzlveOIv5I8Vhf806dYQrHSWJA= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 39 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148583 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:44174 Archived-At: Leo writes: > ----- Tim X (2007-05-19) wrote:----- > >> 3. Switch to firefox (or whatever) and use the middle mouse button to >> paste in the text. > > And this does not work at all with xterm-mouse-mode enabled. > It does for me as long as you hold down the shift key while making the selection. I just verified this. What I did 1. started an xterm 2. ran emacs -nw 3. M-x xterm-mouse-mode 4. while holding down the shift key, holding down button 1 on the mouse, select text to paste. 5. Switched to another application (I tried another xterm and firefox) and hit the middle mouse button. The text I had selected from the emacs screen was pasted into the xterm and into the url box for firefox. so, if its not working for you, either 1. Your not using a "real" xterm, but rather an xterm clone 2. Your not pressing the shift key when making your selection 3. you have something else screwing up things Note also, if your using this mode simply to be able to click on the menus, you can achieve exactly the same result by hitting F10. However, I'd simply just not run in an xterm to begin with. If your running X, why not just run emacs as a native x app and get all the benefits of frames, real menus, probably more colours and likely a better keyboard setup (i.e. is the alt key working? Often it won't under an exterm unless you play around with xterm and modmap). Tim. -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au