[22.2.1] problems with text copy/paste emacs <-> firefox

[22.2.1] problems with text copy/paste emacs <-> firefox

[Tom Roche]

summary:

Emacs can't paste to firefox--much less often firefox can't paste to
emacs--on fresh install of xubuntu 9.04, emacs 22.2.1, firefox 3.5.
How to fix/debug?

details:

Apologies if this should go to bug-gnu-emacs (but it may be a
configuration problem) or if it's a FAQ (but my searches haven't found
it): please let me know if this forum is in/appropriate, and feel free
to reply directly to me as well as to list.

About a week ago I used wubi to install xubuntu 9.04 on a laptop that
has been running winxp sp3 with cygwin. Cygwin, xubuntu, and winXP are
all up-to-date patchwise.  Emacs on cygwin is version=22.4.1 and emacs
on xubuntu is version 22.2.1, so it was relatively easy to setup
mounts and symlinks to allow the xubuntu emacs to use the same
~/.emacs.d/* et al as the cygwin emacs. (Problems there involve
bookmarks and desktop, about which I'll post separately.)

The main problem I'm having on xubuntu is a complete (or at least very
frequent) inability to copy text from emacs to firefox-3.5. I have not
observed problems copying text from emacs to the terminal, or to other
Xfce apps; similarly I have not observed problems copying from other
apps to firefox. Occasionally I also observed problems copying text
from firefox to emacs, but those are comparatively rare. (There might
also be problems copying text from firefox to other applications, but
I almost never copy from firefox to anything other than emacs.)

By contrast, I almost never have these problems with copy/paste
between cygwin emacs, cygwin X, and win32 firefox; when I do, they
seem to be symmetrical. (I.e. pasting emacs -> firefox seems to fail
about as often as pasting firefox -> emacs, and both probabilities are
low.)

Your suggestions regarding fixing and debugging this problem
(including better places to seek help) are appreciated. I'm not sure
if it's a problem with emacs, firefox, GTK, X or what.

HTH, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>

Re: [22.2.1] problems with text copy/paste emacs <-> firefox

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Tom Roche<Tom_Roche@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> summary:
>
> Emacs can't paste to firefox--much less often firefox can't paste to
> emacs--on fresh install of xubuntu 9.04, emacs 22.2.1, firefox 3.5.
> How to fix/debug?

Try Emacs 23, which hopefully soon will be released.

Re: [22.2.1] problems with text copy/paste emacs <-> firefox

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Hi, try that:

,----[ Add this to .emacs ]
| (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
| (setq interprogram-paste-function 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value)
`----

Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> writes:

> summary:
>
> Emacs can't paste to firefox--much less often firefox can't paste to
> emacs--on fresh install of xubuntu 9.04, emacs 22.2.1, firefox 3.5.
> How to fix/debug?
>
> details:
>
> Apologies if this should go to bug-gnu-emacs (but it may be a
> configuration problem) or if it's a FAQ (but my searches haven't found
> it): please let me know if this forum is in/appropriate, and feel free
> to reply directly to me as well as to list.
>
> About a week ago I used wubi to install xubuntu 9.04 on a laptop that
> has been running winxp sp3 with cygwin. Cygwin, xubuntu, and winXP are
> all up-to-date patchwise.  Emacs on cygwin is version=22.4.1 and emacs
> on xubuntu is version 22.2.1, so it was relatively easy to setup
> mounts and symlinks to allow the xubuntu emacs to use the same
> ~/.emacs.d/* et al as the cygwin emacs. (Problems there involve
> bookmarks and desktop, about which I'll post separately.)
>
> The main problem I'm having on xubuntu is a complete (or at least very
> frequent) inability to copy text from emacs to firefox-3.5. I have not
> observed problems copying text from emacs to the terminal, or to other
> Xfce apps; similarly I have not observed problems copying from other
> apps to firefox. Occasionally I also observed problems copying text
> from firefox to emacs, but those are comparatively rare. (There might
> also be problems copying text from firefox to other applications, but
> I almost never copy from firefox to anything other than emacs.)
>
> By contrast, I almost never have these problems with copy/paste
> between cygwin emacs, cygwin X, and win32 firefox; when I do, they
> seem to be symmetrical. (I.e. pasting emacs -> firefox seems to fail
> about as often as pasting firefox -> emacs, and both probabilities are
> low.)
>
> Your suggestions regarding fixing and debugging this problem
> (including better places to seek help) are appreciated. I'm not sure
> if it's a problem with emacs, firefox, GTK, X or what.
>
> HTH, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
>
>
>

-- 
A + Thierry Volpiatto
Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France

Re: [22.2.1] problems with text copy/paste emacs <-> firefox

[Tom Roche]

Tom Roche Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:34:37 -0400
>> Emacs can't paste to firefox--much less often firefox can't paste
>> to emacs--on fresh install of xubuntu 9.04, emacs 22.2.1, firefox
>> 3.5.

Thierry Volpiatto Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:45:03 +0200
> ,----[ Add this to .emacs ]
> | (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
> | (setq interprogram-paste-function 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value)
> `----

Thanks! that fixes.