From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:33:36 +0200 Message-ID: <8338m1zxfj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86de73d1-d8e2-4564-b7a7-749d7778a635@default> <20131208193420.GA12537@doriath.local> <20131208204158.GA12709@doriath.local> <312bb049-db1f-4c18-b7a9-d40cb2cb1358@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386614038 18586 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2013 18:33:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:33:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 09 19:34:03 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 1Vq5ed-0001zj-25 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 19:34:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45407 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vq5ec-0002R6-Mt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 13:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51833) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vq5eK-0002Il-VJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 13:33:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vq5eF-0004Qa-Ks for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 13:33:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:41008) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vq5eF-0004Pj-DI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 13:33:39 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MXJ00A00Y4VSE00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:33:38 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MXJ00AVLY81LD60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:33:38 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <312bb049-db1f-4c18-b7a9-d40cb2cb1358@default> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:94911 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:16:21 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > > 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.