From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Emacs kill/copy under X versus under Windows Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:05:23 -0700 Message-ID: <9B4787B37DF44A0DB1D65DEDED351948@us.oracle.com> References: <4A9AAEB9.2000809@chaosphere.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251734143 18913 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2009 15:55:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:55:43 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Jeff Clough'" , "'GNU Emacs List'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 31 17:55:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mi9EC-0003iH-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:55:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi9EC-0000Fv-6r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:55:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi8Rl-0008JQ-TQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi8Rg-0008G4-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36631 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi8Rg-0008Fr-EJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:05:24 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:47556) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mi8Rf-00052M-MJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:05:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n7VF65X9008716 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:06:08 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt006.oracle.com (abhmt006.oracle.com [141.146.116.15]) by rgminet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n7VF5PJl010107; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:05:27 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.200.210) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:05:07 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: <4A9AAEB9.2000809@chaosphere.com> Thread-Index: AcoqJ/XVlpbiygTlQXOzJ2nVOc6uGAAI+t8w X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: abhmt006.oracle.com [141.146.116.15] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4A9BE6A6.0124:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67686 Archived-At: > 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.