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From: Nikos E Apostolakis <absent@sdf.lonestar.org>
Subject: Re: pasting primary X selection into Emacs
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 00:38:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r73a2ylb.fsf@Sullivan.bcc.cuny.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1146729076.364525.219500@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

mandar.mitra@gmail.com writes:

> The documentation on how to do this via the clipboard is easily
> locatable and clear, but I don't want to use the clipboard for
> copy-pastes. I want to use only the *primary selection*.
>                   

If this is what you wanted to say, then your previous post, namely

> Is there some way to yank whichever is more recent: the last killed
> text or the primary selection?

didn't express it very clearly.  

> AFAIR, I didn't get the behaviour I wanted with
> x-select-enable-clipboard to t.

You don't need to recall, you can set it to t and see what happens.
Though I am not sure what behaviour you want.

-- 
Nikos

      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-04  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-03 16:00 pasting primary X selection into Emacs mandar.mitra
2006-05-03 15:43 ` Nikos E Apostolakis
2006-05-03 16:44 ` Michaël Cadilhac
     [not found] ` <mailman.1328.1146689439.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-05-04  7:51   ` mandar.mitra
2006-05-04  4:38     ` Nikos E Apostolakis [this message]

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