From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to copy and paste from unity to emacs in the terminal version ? Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:20:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8af43eeb-8822-4b82-88f3-a31c29276bcf@googlegroups.com> <7zmwb4vggo.fsf@example.com> <8de23d3b-1f0d-4fc4-b205-ab72946ab276@googlegroups.com> <7zy4ulojs7.fsf@example.com> <20140818115001173959941@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408386110 2704 80.91.229.3 (18 Aug 2014 18:21:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:21:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 18 20:21:43 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XJRYr-0005Vm-Qx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:21:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJRYr-0006Qg-Dk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:21:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJRYV-0006OW-6u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:21:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJRYL-0000tG-4D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42641) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJRYK-0000sn-Sn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XJRYI-0005DM-Cx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:21:06 +0200 Original-Received: from x-132-204-251-254.xtpr.umontreal.ca ([132.204.251.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:21:06 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by x-132-204-251-254.xtpr.umontreal.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:21:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x-132-204-251-254.xtpr.umontreal.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4MqtMLGCZ9Vsb58xlNwsZLdycy0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99274 Archived-At: > The traditional X controls are to highlight using the left mouse > button. Then paste using the middle mouse button. Shift-Insert is > also available as a paste control. Indeed, this is the traditional bindings to control the PRIMARY selection. > Unfortunately (for me anyway) the Microsoft C-c, C-x, C-v controls are > permeating and the traditional methods are becoming broken. Therefore > your experience may be different depending upon configuration. I haven't seen much real breakage in that area. But these key bindings typically control the CLIPBOARD selection instead, so if you're not aware of the distinction between PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection (and/or if you don't know or aren't sure which is used by your program and/or by the key sequence you used), then indeed, sometimes it looks like it's just broken. Stefan