From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:31:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbcvkrgr.fsf@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com> (raw)
Hi,
I have read the archives of this mailing list, and the release
notes of the latest release candidate, and I am left somewhat
confused. I am using the latest Emacs from Git.
This is what I have:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq
transient-mark-mode t ;show the marked region
;;; Behave like other X applications. This is confusing.
x-select-enable-primary t
x-select-enable-clipboard t ;;; cut/paste use clipboard
select-active-regions 'only ;;; temporarily active regions set the
;;; window selection.
mouse-drag-copy-region t ;;; copy dragged region to kill ring
)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
What I want is the behaviour I think I used to have in Emacs on
GNU/Linux X Windows:
1) Whatever text is pasted when I click <down-mouse-2>
(mouse-yank-primary?) should be the same thing yanked when I type
C-y (yank)
2) Conversely, text that is selected in Emacs, such that it is
inserted with a C-y (yank) should also be the text that is pasted
into, say, an xterm when I do a middle mouse click in there.
I often find that text selected in other X applications (which
is inserted in xterms and Emacs using the middle mouse button, is not
what is yanked using the keyboard. I cannot seem to reproduce this
reliably, but I have observed this often.
In Emacs, I select text by:
1) C-SPC (set-mark-command) C-f C-f M-w (kill-ring-save)
2) Down-mouse-1 drag-mouse-1 up-mouse-one (mouse-drag-region)
3) Down-mouse-1 Down-mouse-3 (mouse-save-then-kill
I would like each of these methods to copy things over so that a
middle mouse click in an xterm to paste the text in the region.
What changes do I need to make to get this?
manoj
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next reply other threads:[~2011-01-27 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-27 2:31 Manoj Srivastava [this message]
2011-01-27 2:39 ` The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse Miles Bader
2011-01-27 3:33 ` Manoj Srivastava
2011-01-27 7:49 ` Stefan Reichör
2011-01-27 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 10:36 ` Manoj Srivastava
2011-01-27 21:41 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-27 21:35 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-01-28 8:42 ` Manoj Srivastava
2011-01-28 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-28 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-29 19:06 ` David De La Harpe Golden
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