From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t? Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:00:45 +0200 Message-ID: <46FC8A7D.5080302@swipnet.se> References: <87ejgkyyvx.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190955729 12383 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2007 05:02:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Hanchrow Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 28 07:02:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ib7zE-0002PX-54 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:02:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ib7z9-0001wO-Qa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ib7z4-0001uM-KB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ib7z3-0001t2-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ib7z3-0001sg-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from av12-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.185]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ib7z2-00078N-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: by av12-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 3CE9F3809C; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:01:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.93]) by av12-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27DFD37F99; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:01:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (90-231-102-24-no59.tbcn.telia.com [90.231.102.24]) by smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9D737E42; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:01:46 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) In-Reply-To: <87ejgkyyvx.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79980 Archived-At: 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.