From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy@jeremyms.com>
To: Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t?
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:16:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fy0z6hs8.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ejgkyyvx.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> (Eric Hanchrow's message of "Thu\, 27 Sep 2007 07\:19\:14 -0700")
Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> writes:
> I think beginner's lives would be easier if x-select-enable-clipboard
> defaulted to t -- then Emacs would work the way most other
> applications do, namely: when you select some text, you can then paste
> it into other applications.
Unfortunately, because of limitations in X, settings this means that
getting selections from programs like xterm that use only the primary
selection does not work very reliably.
--
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-27 14:19 Can we make x-select-enable-clipboard default to t? Eric Hanchrow
2007-09-27 19:16 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard [this message]
2007-09-28 5:00 ` Jan Djärv
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