From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Insert at point (mouse copy/yank) Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 14:55:40 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097351802 3273 80.91.229.6 (9 Oct 2004 19:56:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 09 21:56:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CGNKY-0005hZ-00 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:56:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CGNRP-0008LY-BB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:03:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CGNRC-0008Js-9t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:03:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CGNRB-0008JY-N6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CGNRB-0008JU-KC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CGNJy-00034u-Nv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:56:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CGNJy-0004cm-00 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:56:02 +0200 Original-Received: from adsl-68-74-185-17.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.74.185.17]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:56:02 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by adsl-68-74-185-17.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:56:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-74-185-17.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:C34iWuIEkl3E9BgCWDoqsFuoWjE= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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:21164 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21164 "Drew Adams" writes: > mouse-yank-at-point non-nil should do what you want. Perhaps your Emacs has > a bug. > > Try loading mouse.el (not mouse.elc), then M-x debug-on-entry > mouse-yank-at-click, then see what goes wrong (follow the code in mouse.el). Thanks Drew, it turned out to be operator idiocy. I was clicking on the buffer with mouse 1 then using mouse 2, which of course put the emacs cursor where the mouse click1 hit and therefore the paste too.