From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: select text without moving the point in graphical interface Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:59:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6769d83c-595e-46d6-87f6-94d819fffe29@default> References: <<86de73d1-d8e2-4564-b7a7-749d7778a635@default> <20131208193420.GA12537@doriath.local> <20131208204158.GA12709@doriath.local> <312bb049-db1f-4c18-b7a9-d40cb2cb1358@default>> <<8338m1zxfj.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386615649 5601 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2013 19:00:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 19:00:49 +0000 (UTC) To: Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 09 20:00:52 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 1Vq64a-0008Tk-Lp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:00:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45472 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vq64a-00082D-AF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 14:00:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56599) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vq647-00081O-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 14:00:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vq63y-0004JV-Mq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 14:00:23 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:41914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vq63n-00045s-6j; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 14:00:03 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id rB9J00Dj001077 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 9 Dec 2013 19:00:02 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rB9Ixwjn009664 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 9 Dec 2013 19:00:00 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0016.oracle.com (abhmp0016.oracle.com [141.146.116.22]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rB9IxwgK009658; Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:59:58 GMT In-Reply-To: <<8338m1zxfj.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:94914 Archived-At: > > But mouse-2 does not seem to paste what I've selected (even if I use > > `M-w'). I just get the error "No selection is available". >=20 > Selections don't work on text terminals, by design. You will see that > on Windows mouse-2 does paste text cut/copied in another application, > but that's largely an incident, a side effect of implementation > details. Copying into the clipboard from a text-terminal session is > disabled. OK, that corresponds to what I see. Thx.