From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeff Clough Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs kill/copy under X versus under Windows Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:28:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4A9BFA3E.6010100@chaosphere.com> References: <4A9AAEB9.2000809@chaosphere.com> <9B4787B37DF44A0DB1D65DEDED351948@us.oracle.com> 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: ger.gmane.org 1251843031 12938 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2009 22:10:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 22:10:31 +0000 (UTC) To: 'GNU Emacs List' Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 02 00:10:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MibYW-00027z-6k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:10:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MibYV-0005ZJ-KO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi9l5-0005Dy-U0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi9l0-000563-KB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59791 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi9l0-00055p-Eh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.124]:48729) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mi9l0-0006wv-7V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [66.65.230.106]) by hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090831162925048.OBVV17418@hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com> for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:29:25 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <9B4787B37DF44A0DB1D65DEDED351948@us.oracle.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 090831-0, 08/31/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:09:32 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67707 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > C-h v x-select-enable-clipboard > > [snip] > This is non-nil on Windows because many users thought it was nutty that > out-of-the-box Emacs didn't work with other apps wrt copy/paste. You prefer that > it not do that, so set it to nil. > > Thanks for pointing out this variable. Setting to nil makes things work as expected. Jeff -- Author of the Genesys System A "free" universal role-playing game. http://www.chaosphere.com/genesys/