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From: Nikos E Apostolakis <absent@sdf.lonestar.org>
Subject: Re: pasting primary X selection into Emacs
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 11:43:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7xj2jwm.fsf@Sullivan.bcc.cuny.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1146672047.141419.152910@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

mandar.mitra@gmail.com writes:
>
> Is there some way to yank whichever is more recent: the last killed
> text or the primary selection?
>

"M-x set-variable RET x-select-enable-clipboard RET t"

> ps 1: I've looked at some of the discussion on cutting and pasting
> between Emacs and X11 apps, but
> haven't found the answer to this particular question.

Try the documentation:
(info "(emacs)  Clipboard")

> Thanks for any pointers,
> Mandar.

-- 
Nikos

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-03 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-03 16:00 pasting primary X selection into Emacs mandar.mitra
2006-05-03 15:43 ` Nikos E Apostolakis [this message]
2006-05-03 16:44 ` Michaël Cadilhac
     [not found] ` <mailman.1328.1146689439.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-05-04  7:51   ` mandar.mitra
2006-05-04  4:38     ` Nikos E Apostolakis

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