From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Makeing edit function more like win style Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:24:03 -0400 Organization: Looking for work Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <483d7bac.0404271158.6e40d16f@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083098280 4090 80.91.224.253 (27 Apr 2004 20:38:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 27 22:37:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIZKy-0007wm-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:37:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIZFN-0001c1-5I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:32:05 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp1.fuse.net!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:24:03 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) X-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.128.26.140 Original-X-Trace: sv3-bAZMTz81cDi9jxgCYutOysen7yQOw6Z+DuViLv1+9uImre/pvz5Xs1No2GUA8xnNDILLCdFUfgh+HWn!6f8rCmGJ4bkLeAwxipeKOmyy8rItFCAJ2M869/IaPocl3yxgXZ1bvNEb5WotQHK9ib5ZLe1ZiAPI!4kOBoLAWnSA= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122771 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18059 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18059 In article <483d7bac.0404271158.6e40d16f@posting.google.com>, ad90993@yahoo.com (AD90993) wrote: > Michael Schierl wrote in message > news:... > > reader@newsguy.com writes: > > > > > That is, the same action that cuts and pasts from IE to notetab should > > > work from IE to emacs. Currently I see no way at all to do simple cut > > > and paste from browser to emacs. > > > > Where is the problem? When I mark some text in IE, press C-c, then click > > into > > Emacs and press C-y, I get the text there. > > > > However, it does *not* work if you want to replace a selection marked > > with the mouse. > > > > I. e. if you mark some text in IE, press C-c, then mark some text in > > Emacs, you won't be able to paste the IE text over it since Emacs > > already put the new text into the system clipboard. > > > > Michael > > OK, so why would Emacs overwrite the system clipboard on text selection?? > This did not happen in 19.x!! Is there anyway to disable this? Because Emacs adopted the style of cutting used by most X toolkits, where simply marking a region automatically copies it to the clipboard, rather than requiring separate mark and copy actions. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***