From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Clipboard interactions [was: re: Emacs learning curve] Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:14:16 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87fwzp627r.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <10954D02-E217-49F3-8824-757DA34074AB@gmail.com> <83zkxzakr0.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqyva8ms.fsf@gnu.org> <87630n6odf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <874og670l0.fsf@gmx.de> <87k4p257ho.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87fwzqyn4j.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278890272 26466 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2010 23:17:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:17:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sebastian Rose , Tom , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 12 01:17:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY5mG-0006im-PH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:17:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56892 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OY5mA-0000D2-FU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56233 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OY5m3-0000Cw-58 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY5m0-00056B-2u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:35445 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY5lz-00055p-U0; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:17:24 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.33.21.cable.starman.ee [82.131.33.21]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF6733F40A1; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:17:19 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <87fwzqyn4j.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:55:08 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127073 Archived-At: >> That's why I suggested to bind it to the CUA key , and also >> to another CUA key `C-c' because using the clipboard is the standard >> semantics of these CUA keys. >> >> There are numerous user requests asking for this, the most recent >> was just yesterday: >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3216081/integrate-emacs-copy-paste-with-system-copy-paste > > Binding "C-c", is a non-starter of course. I meant `C-c' in cua-mode. It copies the region, but not to the clipboard as most users expect. > But other than that, why not just tell them to set > x-select-enable-clipboard ? This is the answer that they usually get, but new users ask the same question again. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/