From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need help with emacs clipboard. Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 19:02:19 +0000 Message-ID: <874mr6ojt0.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <20150129185746715118144@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422730962 32349 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2015 19:02:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 19:02:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, cplum984@gmail.com To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 31 20:02:41 2015 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 1YHdJZ-0008Gw-F5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:02:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42589 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHdJY-0005zd-MP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:02:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHdJK-0005zI-5A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:02:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHdJG-0006Co-VT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:02:26 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp03.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.16]:52495) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHdJG-0006B0-PL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail04.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.17]) by outbound-smtp03.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A843998B1 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 19:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 9764 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2015 19:02:20 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.78.123.17]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 31 Jan 2015 19:02:20 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20150129185746715118144@bob.proulx.com> (message from Bob Proulx on Fri, 30 Jan 2015 20:18:37 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.16 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:102402 Archived-At: I agree with your description of these facilities, and I now see why you setup things the way you do. Except one thing.... You write: > 1. Click and hold mouse-1, drag, release. Text is highlighted and > placed into the primary selection. Click mouse-2. Primary selection > is pasted as input. Generally everywhere but in Emacs v24 this was > changed to use the clipboard by default instead of the primary selection. Then later on: > Note that in your words "If I mark something" that at that time it has > already been placed into the primary selection using the X Window > System behavior. You can immediately paste that with the mouse middle > button. The behaviour you describe in the latter paragraph still works for me in Libreoffice and Firefox. So, I don't see why you say in the former paragraph "Generally everywhere but in Emacs v24 this was changed to use the clipboard by default instead of the primary selection." I don't see that it has been changed much. Like you say yourself, when you press C-c or C-x it's placed on the clipboard. The only thing I've noticed change is that C-v in those programs pastes the clipboard not the primary selection. Perhaps Firefox and Libreoffice are setup different by distro makers. BR, Robert Thorpe