From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikos E Apostolakis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: pasting primary X selection into Emacs Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 11:43:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87y7xj2jwm.fsf@Sullivan.bcc.cuny.edu> References: <1146672047.141419.152910@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146689452 30556 80.91.229.2 (3 May 2006 20:50:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 20:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 03 22:50:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbOJ7-000848-7r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 22:50:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbOJ6-0000gE-RZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:50:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbOIv-0000dU-TL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:50:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbOIt-0000Zr-Fs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:50:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbOIt-0000Zj-Cx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:50:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FbOJL-0005C6-E1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FbOIg-0007yh-2P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 22:50:22 +0200 Original-Received: from 199.219.160.30 ([199.219.160.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 22:50:22 +0200 Original-Received: from absent by 199.219.160.30 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 22:50:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.219.160.30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vN+1c96+frJtmmshvcFRGRUOtuo= 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:34789 Archived-At: 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