paste from local emacs to ssh remote term emacs

paste from local emacs to ssh remote term emacs

[David Kritzberg]

When I try to copy text from a local emacs session (C-w) to a remote
emacs session running in a gnome-term (over ssh), I find that there is
nothing 'on the clipboard'.  I've never really gotten the hang of the
'kill ring' but I can copy and paste in the opposite direction, and I
can copy from galeon/mozilla into a remote emacs running the same
way.  Can anyone suggest to me what I might be doing wrong?  Thanks

Re: paste from local emacs to ssh remote term emacs

[Rob Thorpe]

David Kritzberg <dave@kritzberg.colorado.edu> wrote in message news:<m3wufwktbp.fsf@kritzberg.colorado.edu>...
> When I try to copy text from a local emacs session (C-w) to a remote
> emacs session running in a gnome-term (over ssh), I find that there is
> nothing 'on the clipboard'.  I've never really gotten the hang of the
> 'kill ring' but I can copy and paste in the opposite direction, and I
> can copy from galeon/mozilla into a remote emacs running the same
> way.  Can anyone suggest to me what I might be doing wrong?  Thanks

Firstly M-x customize the variable x-select-enable-clipboard to t
Then things will go into the X clipboard.  If you do a middle-button
paste it should paste into the remote Emacs (due to the way X works,
not Emacs).

Re: paste from local emacs to ssh remote term emacs

[David Kritzberg]

robert.thorpe@antenova.com (Rob Thorpe) writes:

> Firstly M-x customize the variable x-select-enable-clipboard to t
> Then things will go into the X clipboard.  If you do a middle-button
> paste it should paste into the remote Emacs (due to the way X works,
> not Emacs).

Thanks Robert.