From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 14:49:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20130103214947.GA13649@hysteria.proulx.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357249795 21276 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2013 21:49:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 21:49:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 22:50:12 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 1Tqsfz-0005YU-1Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:50:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46213 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tqsfj-0004ah-V5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:49:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44930) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tqsfe-0004aK-0t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:49:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tqsfd-0007aJ-5r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:49:49 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:39313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tqsfc-0007aE-Vc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:49:49 -0500 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1547D21252 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 14:49:48 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BA8E82DCCA; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 14:49:47 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 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:88418 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Is there any way in the current emacs to cut and paste from the > > keyboard? I know it still supports it because it works with the > > mouse just not the keyboard. > > (setq select-active-regions nil > mouse-drag-copy-region t > x-select-enable-primary t > x-select-enable-clipboard nil) > > to get sane selection/X interaction defaults back. Yay! Just tried it and it worked great. Now to read the documentation on each of those to understand any side effects. Thank you! Bob