selection-coding-system and pasting to Firefox

selection-coding-system and pasting to Firefox

[Brendan Halpin]

I've had problems pasting from Emacs 21 to firefox (under Debian),
and have stumbled on a solution: 

M-x set-selection-coding-system RET iso-latin-1-unix RET

I can now paste to firefox (and paste strings with accented
characters to xclipboard, which was my workaround). 

Question: what do I lose or risk by setting selection-coding-system
away from the default, compound-text-with-extensions?

Brendan
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Brendan Halpin,  Department of Sociology,  University of Limerick,  Ireland
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Re: selection-coding-system and pasting to Firefox

[B.T. Raven]

"Brendan Halpin" <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> wrote in message
news:87is0ymjm1.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie...
> I've had problems pasting from Emacs 21 to firefox (under Debian),
> and have stumbled on a solution:
>
> M-x set-selection-coding-system RET iso-latin-1-unix RET
>
> I can now paste to firefox (and paste strings with accented
> characters to xclipboard, which was my workaround).
>
> Question: what do I lose or risk by setting selection-coding-system
> away from the default, compound-text-with-extensions?
>
> Brendan

Don't know. The keybinding for this is C-x RET x. ls there a way to make
this work in w32? I want to copy from emacs buffer (utf-8) and paste
into Outlook Express.

Thanks,

Ed

Re: selection-coding-system and pasting to Firefox

[Brendan Halpin]

"B.T. Raven" <ejmn@cpinternet.com> writes:

> "Brendan Halpin" <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> wrote in message
> news:87is0ymjm1.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie...
[...]
> > Question: what do I lose or risk by setting selection-coding-system
> > away from the default, compound-text-with-extensions?
> >
> > Brendan
> 
> Don't know. The keybinding for this is C-x RET x. ls there a way to make
> this work in w32? I want to copy from emacs buffer (utf-8) and paste
> into Outlook Express.

Experiment: press TAB at the "Coding system for X selection" prompt
that you get, and try some of the options (e.g. iso-8859-1-dos or
utf8-dos). 

Brendan

-- 
Brendan Halpin,  Department of Sociology,  University of Limerick,  Ireland
Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147
mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie  http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html