From: Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How make pastes go under *mouse pointer* rather than where "point variable" is set?
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:05:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocqi6csi.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <171b3374-d786-4205-a48a-d4e9c21bd719@i8g2000pro.googlegroups.com>
At Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:34:38 -0700 (PDT),
Chris Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Linux lets you highlight some text and paste it somewhere by pressing
> the middle mouse button.
>
> How make these pastes go under *mouse pointer* rather than where
> "point variable" is set?
This setting enables the behavior you desire:
(setq mouse-yank-at-point nil)
How did I find out? I did `M-x apropos RET yank mouse RET'. It's
helpful to know the Emacs jargon, e.g. that pasting is called yanking
in Emacs.
HTH,
Anselm
--
Anselm Helbig
mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-14 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-14 0:34 How make pastes go under *mouse pointer* rather than where "point variable" is set? Chris Seberino
2009-08-14 8:05 ` Anselm Helbig [this message]
2009-08-14 17:37 ` Chris Seberino
2009-08-15 0:24 ` Lennart Borgman
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