From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: x-clipboard-yank insert kill-ring entry instead of primary selection Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:34:07 +0200 Message-ID: <831rqbyor4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831rqeho9f.fsf@gnu.org> <73781ecb442d054133e5fe81bd0c1805@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="76054"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 02 12:35:22 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j8jM2-000Jfr-8x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:35:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59232 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j8jM1-0006aV-9p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j8jKv-0005UU-IM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:34:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37292) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j8jKv-0000dM-EO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:34:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2118 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1j8jKv-0004n3-0z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:34:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <73781ecb442d054133e5fe81bd0c1805@posteo.net> (mickbert@posteo.net) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122509 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:57:00 +0100 > From: mickbert@posteo.net > > > I suggest to read the section "Selection changes" in NEWS, it explains > > what has changed in this area and how to customize Emacs to get back > > the old pre-Emacs 24 behavior. > > I read it all, and now I have clearer image of the "copy/paste > universe", but > I can not find anything helpful yet - that is, a command to yank from > primary selection, other than mouse-yank-primary (which can only be > bound to mouse event). > > even searching for command matching *select* or *primary* does not > give any interesting result. Is it possible that there is not any > command > to yank from primary selection? Did you try customizing x-select-enable-clipboard to nil and x-select-enable-primary to t? AFAIU, if you do that, then C-y will yank from the primary selection, if a primary selection exists.