From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How do I paste at new point with middle click? Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 05:37:09 +0300 Message-ID: <831sblqwiy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lg9uq9fj.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532918108 5550 195.159.176.226 (30 Jul 2018 02:35:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 02:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bruce Korb Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 30 04:35:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fjy1X-0001MW-Hn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 04:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fjy3e-0002bS-AO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 22:37:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46252) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fjy3X-0002bJ-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 22:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fjy3S-0006c7-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 22:37:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48432) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fjy3S-0006c1-KM; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 22:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2214 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fjy3S-0002GH-1w; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 22:37:02 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Bruce Korb on Sun, 29 Jul 2018 18:12:51 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227970 Archived-At: > From: Bruce Korb > Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 18:12:51 -0700 > > This link? > > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyAndPaste > > Can't get it to work. What I really want is all paste-able text to be > in the x-clipboard > so that it is accessible from other applications and it gets pasted in > emacs whether > I use Ctl-Y or middle-mouse-button. How that happens, I don't care. I > do *NOT* want > to have to think about "how do I get these characters into the > paste-able buffer?" > Am I going to paste with middle mouse in an Xterm? With middle mouse in emacs? > with Ctl-Y in emacs? With Ctl-V in some other app? I DO NOT KNOW AND I DO NOT > WANT TO CARE, either. that "wiki" page is too obtuse for me to figure > how to do it. The file NEWS.24 describes how to get back that old behavior, under "Selection changes" (near the end of that section). Did you do what it says?