emacs 24 and vnc not working

emacs 24 and vnc not working

[Perry Smith]

After a lot of poking around, my basic conclusion is emacs 24 cut and paste does not do something that a vnc server needs but emacs 22.3 did.

I've tried two difference vnc servers and three different vnc viewers and all exhibit the same characteristics.

I can copy from emacs using M-w and paste it into an xterm on the same Xvnc server.  But I can not paste it into anything else such as a Mac application.

With an xterm or emacs 22.3 on the same Xvnc server, it works fine.

I can verify that the clipboard and primary selection are both being updated -- it just isn't working with the Xvnc server.

I hope someone can help me out 'cause I'm not making much progress on this.

I also have not figured out how to copy from the xterm into emacs but I figure that is pilot error or a config setting.

Thank you,
Perry

Re: emacs 24 and vnc not working

[Perry Smith]

Can we please bring back cut buffer support?  That is what I need.

On Aug 7, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Perry Smith wrote:

> After a lot of poking around, my basic conclusion is emacs 24 cut and paste does not do something that a vnc server needs but emacs 22.3 did.
> 
> I've tried two difference vnc servers and three different vnc viewers and all exhibit the same characteristics.
> 
> I can copy from emacs using M-w and paste it into an xterm on the same Xvnc server.  But I can not paste it into anything else such as a Mac application.
> 
> With an xterm or emacs 22.3 on the same Xvnc server, it works fine.
> 
> I can verify that the clipboard and primary selection are both being updated -- it just isn't working with the Xvnc server.
> 
> I hope someone can help me out 'cause I'm not making much progress on this.
> 
> I also have not figured out how to copy from the xterm into emacs but I figure that is pilot error or a config setting.
> 
> Thank you,
> Perry
> 

Re: emacs 24 and vnc not working

[arenson9]

On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 8:59:24 PM UTC-4, Perry Smith wrote:
> Can we please bring back cut buffer support?  That is what I need.> 
 

I was able to copy from Win7 to an emacs window until I upgraded RealVNC. Now it fails and I don't know if it's because there's some setting on RealVNC I need to choose or something else is going on.

Re: emacs 24 and vnc not working

[Perry Smith]

On Aug 9, 2012, at 10:57 AM, arenson9@gmail.com wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 8:59:24 PM UTC-4, Perry Smith wrote:
>> Can we please bring back cut buffer support?  That is what I need.> 
> 
> 
> I was able to copy from Win7 to an emacs window until I upgraded RealVNC. Now it fails and I don't know if it's because there's some setting on RealVNC I need to choose or something else is going on.

Which version of emacs?  I think cut buffers was removed in version 24 so any version before 24 would be using cut buffers and new VNC's use selection.

I was encouraged by a friend to switch from the older vnc's to a purchased copy of RealVNC for AIX.  $50 a year I believe.  I'm still using the trail key.

At this point, using the new (not open source) RealVNC server, I can copy and paste (both directions) from a Mac app to Emacs 24.  I can not presently copy from the old xterm to emacs 24 but I am pretty sure that is a setting that needs to change.  I have not tried emacs 22 displayed in the new RealVNC window.  I can try that tomorrow and report back.

But, should this be required?  Should users be required to go use non open source code just to get their emacs to behave right?

I still would like to see cut buffers added back in to the standard distribution.  I'm also wondering if the various boolean flags could not be better auto configured by detecting the level of X11 server emacs is running on.

Thank you,
Perry

Re: emacs 24 and vnc not working

[gnowfb]

http://www.nongnu.org/autocutsel fixed the problem for me without any emacs 24 changes.

On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 8:59:24 PM UTC-4, Perry Smith wrote:
> Can we please bring back cut buffer support?  That is what I need.
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 7, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Perry Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > After a lot of poking around, my basic conclusion is emacs 24 cut and paste does not do something that a vnc server needs but emacs 22.3 did.
> 
> > 
> 
> > I've tried two difference vnc servers and three different vnc viewers and all exhibit the same characteristics.
> 
> > 
> 
> > I can copy from emacs using M-w and paste it into an xterm on the same Xvnc server.  But I can not paste it into anything else such as a Mac application.
> 
> > 
> 
> > With an xterm or emacs 22.3 on the same Xvnc server, it works fine.
> 
> > 
> 
> > I can verify that the clipboard and primary selection are both being updated -- it just isn't working with the Xvnc server.
> 
> > 
> 
> > I hope someone can help me out 'cause I'm not making much progress on this.
> 
> > 
> 
> > I also have not figured out how to copy from the xterm into emacs but I figure that is pilot error or a config setting.
> 
> > 
> 
> > Thank you,
> 
> > Perry
> 
> >