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 21:41:56 -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> <20140818175737000013887@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408412558 1586 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2014 01:42:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:42:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 19 03:42:33 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 1XJYRV-0004m4-5v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:42:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47311 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJYRU-0007cG-RC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:42:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48180) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJYRC-0007Ty-Fe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJYR3-0001pa-Og for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33211) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJYR3-0001pU-HQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:42:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XJYR1-0004ZE-WE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:42:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 192-171-34-171.cpe.pppoe.ca ([192.171.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:42:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 192-171-34-171.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:42:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192-171-34-171.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+TLKDCWpA8riLrYOV3CHklHB850= 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:99290 Archived-At: > I am familiar with the differences between the primary selection and > the clipboard. However the resulting behavior of cutting text and > pasting text shouldn't matter whether you are using one or the other. Of course it does: if you select text in an application which puts it in PRIMARY and then paste it in an application which looks for it in CLIPBOARD you won't get what you're asking for. > In the end anything that prevents being able to highlight text with a > click and drag of the left mouse button and then being able to paste > that text with the middle button appears as breakage whether it is > actually the clipboard or the primary selection executing the details. Right. The convention is not followed correctly by all applications, plus some applications are trying to be helpful (i.e. to try and accommodate the fact that other applications don't follow the convention correctly) and end up breaking the convention yet again. It's kind of messy because this convention was introduced "late" in the life of X11. Stefan