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From: michael.cadilhac@lrde.org (Michaël Cadilhac)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pasting primary X selection into Emacs
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 18:44:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r73bvz0w.fsf@lrde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1146672047.141419.152910@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (mandar mitra's message of "3 May 2006 09:00:47 -0700")


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mandar.mitra@gmail.com writes:

> I would like to use C-y or <middle button> to yank the primary X
> selection in Emacs.
>
> C-y and middle button both work as expected after a kill (since the
> kill updates the primary selection), but if I use the mouse to create a
> new primary selection after that, and then do a C-y, I still get the
> last killed text, instead of the new primary selection.
>
> Is there some way to yank whichever is more recent: the last killed
> text or the primary selection?

  It works for me (Emacs 22) and AFAIR, it has always worked.

  However, if you use emacs -nw, I don't think the problem is « emacs
  solvable ».

  Regards.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-03 16:44 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 [this message]
     [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

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