From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre Oberlin" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to paste from Cygwin Emacs to Windows app using keyboard? Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:55:52 +0200 Organization: http://www.migo.info Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367015993 10509 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2013 22:39:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:39:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 27 00:39:58 2013 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 1UVrJ1-0007d5-SR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:39:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39245 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UVrJ1-0005Qf-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:39:51 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe11.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.14 (Linux) Original-Lines: 62 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:56:00 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 2225 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198101 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:39:40 -0400 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:90369 Archived-At: 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 wrote: > Die Mon Apr 22 2013 18:01:55 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) Alexandre > Oberlin 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 > > > -- Alexandre Oberlin http://www.migo.info