pasting primary X selection into Emacs

pasting primary X selection into Emacs

[mandar.mitra]

I would like to use C-y or <middle button> to yank the primary X
selection in Emacs.

C-y and middle button both work as expected after a kill (since the
kill updates the primary selection), but if I use the mouse to create a
new primary selection after that, and then do a C-y, I still get the
last killed text, instead of the new primary selection.

Is there some way to yank whichever is more recent: the last killed
text or the primary selection?

Thanks for any pointers,
Mandar.

ps 1: I've looked at some of the discussion on cutting and pasting
between Emacs and X11 apps, but
haven't found the answer to this particular question.

ps 2: I had posted this on comp.emacs, but got no suggestions, so I'm
trying here. I should have crossposted at the outset. Sorry.

Re: pasting primary X selection into Emacs

[Nikos E Apostolakis]

mandar.mitra@gmail.com writes:
>
> Is there some way to yank whichever is more recent: the last killed
> text or the primary selection?
>

"M-x set-variable RET x-select-enable-clipboard RET t"

> ps 1: I've looked at some of the discussion on cutting and pasting
> between Emacs and X11 apps, but
> haven't found the answer to this particular question.

Try the documentation:
(info "(emacs)  Clipboard")

> Thanks for any pointers,
> Mandar.

-- 
Nikos

Re: pasting primary X selection into Emacs

[Michaël Cadilhac]

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mandar.mitra@gmail.com writes:

> I would like to use C-y or <middle button> to yank the primary X
> selection in Emacs.
>
> C-y and middle button both work as expected after a kill (since the
> kill updates the primary selection), but if I use the mouse to create a
> new primary selection after that, and then do a C-y, I still get the
> last killed text, instead of the new primary selection.
>
> Is there some way to yank whichever is more recent: the last killed
> text or the primary selection?

  It works for me (Emacs 22) and AFAIR, it has always worked.

  However, if you use emacs -nw, I don't think the problem is « emacs
  solvable ».

  Regards.

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Re: pasting primary X selection into Emacs

[mandar.mitra]

The documentation on how to do this via the clipboard is easily
locatable and clear, but I don't want to use the clipboard for
copy-pastes. I want to use only the *primary selection*.

Anyway, things seem to be working now. The funny thing is that I'm sure
that I verified the behaviour before I posted. FWIW, I have
x-select-enable-clipboard explicitly set to nil in my .emacs. AFAIR, I
didn't get the behaviour I wanted with x-select-enable-clipboard to t.

Re: pasting primary X selection into Emacs

[Nikos E Apostolakis]

mandar.mitra@gmail.com writes:

> The documentation on how to do this via the clipboard is easily
> locatable and clear, but I don't want to use the clipboard for
> copy-pastes. I want to use only the *primary selection*.
>                   

If this is what you wanted to say, then your previous post, namely

> Is there some way to yank whichever is more recent: the last killed
> text or the primary selection?

didn't express it very clearly.  

> AFAIR, I didn't get the behaviour I wanted with
> x-select-enable-clipboard to t.

You don't need to recall, you can set it to t and see what happens.
Though I am not sure what behaviour you want.

-- 
Nikos