From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: imputerate Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: select large text with mouse Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 18:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <05f825db-d5be-4573-b7c2-4a968928df2c@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212903285 20039 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2008 05:34:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 05:34:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 07:35:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K5DYt-0003cV-OZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:35:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5DY6-00075g-OV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:34:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.31.205.57 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1212888393 13070 127.0.0.1 (8 Jun 2008 01:26:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 01:26:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.31.205.57; posting-account=nLw1LAgAAAC-__9kTF1Cg2C1w3aPdEcE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041514 Firefox/3.0b5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159243 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:31:42 -0400 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54604 Archived-At: ubuntu [hardy] emacs: 22.1-0ubuntu10 gnus: 5.11+v0.5.dfsg slackware [12.0] emacs: 22.2-i486-1 i can't get my logitech wheelmouse to select any more text from an emacs buffer [in xterm/konsole] than appears on the screen at one time; when the mouse button is pressed, neither down-arrow, page-down, nor scroll down will give the mouse access to text below the screen; i know that i can 1/ select the entire buffer with 'mark-whole-buffer' and then 2/ 'append-to-file', and then 3/ 'insert-file' when i'm moving among files on one machine; [now that i think of it, didn't i used to be able to mark text in one emacs session and paste it into another session, say in another xterm? i can't now;] AND, i can set up an ssh/screen/emacs buffer for copying and pasting which shows up on two machines at once; BUT, because i'm limited to selecting only one screen at a time, this often entails scp'ing an "inserted" file from one machine to another [too much trouble]; so, is there a way to let the mouse select more than a screen at a time from an emacs buffer? thanks, imputerate