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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


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