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* mouseless copying to clipboard
@ 2012-01-13 20:30 Silvio Levy
  2012-01-13 21:05 ` Peter Dyballa
  2012-01-13 22:17 ` Jay Belanger
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Silvio Levy @ 2012-01-13 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs


Dear Emacsers

I'd like to be able to copy text to my X-clipboard without using the
mouse.  The problem is that I like to use emacs -nw for reasons I
won't go into, and it doesn't seem to work.  That is, if i run

(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)

and then set mark, move point, M-w, the selection is not saved to my
X-clipboard. I've confirmed it works when I call emacs without the -nw
option.

Is there a solution?  I'm running the version below on Ubuntu 10.04.

GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu,
GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2011-03-04 on palmer, modified by Debian

Silvio




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* Re: mouseless copying to clipboard
@ 2012-01-13 21:12 Silvio Levy
  2012-01-13 21:35 ` Ludwig, Mark
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Silvio Levy @ 2012-01-13 21:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Dyballa; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs


> This variable's name tells you that is specific to exactly one windowing 
> system, the X11 Windows System. One should not assume that it is 
> available with other windowing systems (NextStep/Apple, MS) or no 
> windowing system at all.

Hi Peter,

To clarify, I am using X11 with xfce4 as the window manager. 
And as I wrote the whole thing works if I call emacs without -nw,
but I prefer to run emacs -nw in a gnome-terminal, especially if
I'm running it on remotely via ssh. (I don't have the option of
mounting the remote file system locally.)

Silvio





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* Re: mouseless copying to clipboard
@ 2012-01-13 22:57 Silvio Levy
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Silvio Levy @ 2012-01-13 22:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jay.p.belanger; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs


Hi Jay - you're great!  It worked as soon as I ran M-x turn-on-xclip.
(I found out about that by looking in xclip.el - some hook calls is
but it's apparently not being run by default.)

Silvio


> Hi Silvio!
> 
> > I'd like to be able to copy text to my X-clipboard without using the
> > mouse.  The problem is that I like to use emacs -nw for reasons I
> > won't go into, and it doesn't seem to work.
> ...
> > Is there a solution?
> 
> If you install xclip (which can be installed with apt-get, on Ubuntu
> 11.10 at least) and load the lisp file located at 
>   http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/xclip.el
> then it should work.
> 
> Jay
> 
> 



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