Re: Ctrl-Y is pasting from the clipboard

[Dan Bensen <randomgeek@cyberspace.net>]

> | I can copy text from Firefox or a pdf file and paste it into emacs
> | with either Ctrl-y or Ctrl-x c y.  I thought the emacs kill ring was
> | different from the X clipboard.

Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> window) you will find that yank calls current-kill to get what it is
> yanking, and current-kill in its turn will funcall
> interprogram-paste-function, which is a variable that typically (on X)
> has the value x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value.  And that function is
> described as follows in x-win.el:
> ;;; Return the value of the current X selection.

> In summary, if you set interprogram-paste-function to nil then I think
> you have completely severed the connection between the kill ring and
> the X selection, and then you will always have to make a conscious
> choice between the two.  But that seems to be what you want. 

Just to be clear, I don't particularly care.  I'm mostly just wondering 
why the behavior mysteriously changed.  But your answer sounds like they 
should have been the same all along. They weren't.  At first, Ctrl-y 
wasn't copying from X.  That's the whole reason I started using the 
other functions in the first place.  It sounds like maybe something 
changed interprogram-paste-function.

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Dan
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