From: Chris Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How make pastes go under *mouse pointer* rather than where "point variable" is set?
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:37:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ebd073f-acbd-4345-94c5-eecc4af3817f@m3g2000pri.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ocqi6csi.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com
On Aug 14, 1:05 am, Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig
+news2...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> At Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:34:38 -0700 (PDT),
>
> ChrisSeberino<cseber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Linux lets you highlight some text and paste it somewhere by pressing
> > the middle mouse button.
>
> > How make these pastes go under *mouse pointer* rather than where
> > "point variable" is set?
>
> This setting enables the behavior you desire:
>
> (setq mouse-yank-at-point nil)
>
> How did I find out? I did `M-x apropos RET yank mouse RET'. It's
> helpful to know the Emacs jargon, e.g. that pasting is called yanking
> in Emacs.
>
> HTH,
Anselm
thanks a 10^6 !
cs
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-14 0:34 How make pastes go under *mouse pointer* rather than where "point variable" is set? Chris Seberino
2009-08-14 8:05 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-08-14 17:37 ` Chris Seberino [this message]
2009-08-15 0:24 ` Lennart Borgman
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