Re: How to paste from Cygwin Emacs to Windows app using keyboard?

["Alexandre Oberlin" <email_through@migo.info>]

Thank you Ed,

I did not see your answer last time when I checked the newsgroup while  
Windows. I am presently working in Linux and will check your suggestions  
as soon as I go back to Windows.

Cheers,

Alexandre


   I did not nOn Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:03:47 +0200, B. T. Raven  
<btraven@nihilo.net> wrote:

> Die Mon Apr 22 2013 18:01:55 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) Alexandre
> Oberlin <email_through@migo.info> scripsit:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I use Cygwin under Windows 7. I managed to paste from Windows into Emacs
>> by adding
>> '"shift insert": paste-from-clipboard'
>> to my .inputrc file.
>>
>> However I still cannot paste from Emacs into a Windows application
>> unless I use the mouse to select in Emacs.
>>
>> I have played with x-select-enable-clipboard,
>> interprogram-paste-function etc. with no avail. I do not run X on  
>> Cygwin.
>>
>> Any suggestion?
>>
>> Alexandre
>>
>>
>
> Also, since you mentioned it, try checking whether these are set (they
> may be hard-wired during the build since they don't seem to be
> customizable):
>
> "
> interprogram-cut-function is a variable defined in `simple.el'.
> Its value is x-select-text
>
> interprogram-paste-function is a variable defined in `simple.el'.
> Its value is x-get-selection-value
>
> "
>
> I don't know if they are appropriate when using Cygwin but they work on
> the w32 native build at least on ver. 23.3
>
> Ed
>
>
>


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