From: Paul K <mafeuser@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs24/gtk3 - how to mark rectangle of to primary selection?
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:33:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA+mFXOF+ZS-kv2VKOfvCCBYfW+rdnEkDin_GWmRw0o7-+NNGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjdi3p0y.wl%lists@groll.co.za>
Peter and Jonathan,
thank You for Your answer.
These solutions seem to be a bit compicated,
so how about sending marked/selected rectangle to clipboard selection
with or without cua-mode?
best regards,
Paul
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:24:12 +0200, Paul K <mafeuser@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hallo.
>>
>> I tried to do it with cua-mode, but no luck.
>>
>> Have You got any ideas?
>
> You could do it step-wise:
> Kill a rectangle. set-mark-command (c-SPC) at one corner, kill-rectangle (C-x
> r k) at the opposite corner. Then undo (C-_) if you don't want the
> text to be lost.
>
> Then go to the scratch buffer and yank-rectangle (C-x r y). Then do
> whatever you normally do to highlight with the mouse etc to get it
> into the primary selection.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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> jjg: Jonathan J. Groll : groll co za
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-26 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-26 14:24 emacs24/gtk3 - how to mark rectangle of to primary selection? Paul K
2012-06-26 14:52 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-06-26 18:29 ` Jonathan Groll
2012-06-26 20:33 ` Paul K [this message]
2012-06-26 20:44 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-06-26 20:58 ` Paul K
2012-06-26 21:19 ` suvayu ali
2012-06-27 6:58 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.3529.1340742812.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-27 11:47 ` Xah Lee
2012-06-27 17:15 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-06-27 18:41 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.3573.1340817336.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-29 16:38 ` Xah Lee
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