Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t?

Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t?

[Eric Hanchrow]

I think beginner's lives would be easier if x-select-enable-clipboard
defaulted to t -- then Emacs would work the way most other
applications do, namely: when you select some text, you can then paste
it into other applications.

-- 
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong
word.  There are no exceptions to this rule.
        -- Stephen King

Re: Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t?

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> writes:

> I think beginner's lives would be easier if x-select-enable-clipboard
> defaulted to t -- then Emacs would work the way most other
> applications do, namely: when you select some text, you can then paste
> it into other applications.

Unfortunately, because of limitations in X, settings this means that
getting selections from programs like xterm that use only the primary
selection does not work very reliably.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard

Re: Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t?

[Jan Djärv]

Eric Hanchrow skrev:
> I think beginner's lives would be easier if x-select-enable-clipboard
> defaulted to t -- then Emacs would work the way most other
> applications do, namely: when you select some text, you can then paste
> it into other applications.
> 

The text you copy/kill in Emacs (M-w, C-w) are saved in the clipboard.  I 
don't think other applications autmatically put stuff in the clipboard. 
Usually they use C-c, C-x and such.

	Jan D.