From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Jeff Clough'" <jeff@chaosphere.com>,
"'GNU Emacs List'" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Emacs kill/copy under X versus under Windows
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:05:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9B4787B37DF44A0DB1D65DEDED351948@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9AAEB9.2000809@chaosphere.com>
> Running 22.3 on both Windows and X, I notice a difference in
> how Emacs interacts with the clipboard.
>
> Under Windows...Whatever you last killed goes
> straight to the clipboard, and whatever you last copied in another
> application gets dumped into your buffer with a yank.
...
> So we have different behavior between ports...
Yes, it is by design (a feature, not a bug).
> Is there some way to make Emacs on Windows behave itself and
> ignore the clipboard unless told otherwise, just like under X?
C-h v x-select-enable-clipboard
,----
| x-select-enable-clipboard's value is
| t
|
| Documentation:
| Non-nil means cutting and pasting uses the clipboard.
| This is in addition to the primary selection.
|
| Defined in `term/w32-win'.
`----
This is non-nil on Windows because many users thought it was nutty that
out-of-the-box Emacs didn't work with other apps wrt copy/paste. You prefer that
it not do that, so set it to nil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-31 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-30 16:54 Emacs kill/copy under X versus under Windows Jeff Clough
2009-08-31 15:05 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-08-31 16:28 ` Jeff Clough
2009-08-31 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <mailman.5696.1251714880.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-31 20:33 ` John A Pershing Jr
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