From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:33:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8338m1zxfj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <312bb049-db1f-4c18-b7a9-d40cb2cb1358@default>
> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:16:21 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> 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".
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-09 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-08 19:00 select text without moving the point in graphical interface Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-08 19:11 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-08 19:34 ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-08 20:24 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-08 20:41 ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-08 22:13 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-09 1:53 ` Bob Proulx
2013-12-09 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83fvq2znym.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-12-09 5:17 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-09 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83bo0qyp1d.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-12-09 18:16 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-09 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <<8338m1zxfj.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-12-09 18:59 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-08 21:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-12-08 22:58 ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-09 19:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-12-10 18:58 ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-10 19:02 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-10 19:13 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-12-10 19:26 ` Ernest Adrogué
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