From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ludwig, Mark" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: mouseless copying to clipboard Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:35:28 +0000 Message-ID: References: Your message of Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:05:09 +0100 <20120113211213.073141810C9@neo.msri.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326490547 15781 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2012 21:35:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Silvio Levy , Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 13 22:35:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rlomh-0003yW-Rx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:35:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rlomh-0002vb-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:35:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rlomc-0002vG-KH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:35:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rlomb-0003aZ-Gj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:35:34 -0500 Original-Received: from usslmhub002.ugs.com ([134.244.32.85]:29331 helo=ugs.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rlomb-0003aK-9n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:35:33 -0500 Original-Received: from USSLMMBX002.net.plm.eds.com (161.134.138.62) by USSLMHUB002.net.plm.eds.com (134.244.32.85) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.323.3; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:35:29 -0600 Original-Received: from USSLMMBX003.net.plm.eds.com ([169.254.2.137]) by USSLMMBX002.net.plm.eds.com ([169.254.1.94]) with mapi id 14.01.0323.003; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:35:29 -0600 Thread-Topic: mouseless copying to clipboard Thread-Index: AQHM0jgElaVte2WoTE6Mq7NniAdh4pYK0W8w In-Reply-To: <20120113211213.073141810C9@neo.msri.org> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [146.122.71.14] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP2+, XP SP1+ (seldom 98) X-Received-From: 134.244.32.85 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83486 Archived-At: > From: Silvio Levy > Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 3:12 PM > To: Peter Dyballa > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Subject: Re: mouseless copying to clipboard >=20 >=20 > > This variable's name tells you that is specific to exactly one > windowing > > system, the X11 Windows System. One should not assume that it is > > available with other windowing systems (NextStep/Apple, MS) or no > > windowing system at all. >=20 > Hi Peter, >=20 > To clarify, I am using X11 with xfce4 as the window manager. > And as I wrote the whole thing works if I call emacs without -nw, > but I prefer to run emacs -nw in a gnome-terminal, especially if > I'm running it on remotely via ssh. (I don't have the option of > mounting the remote file system locally.) >=20 > Silvio Silvio, What you are not apparently understanding is that "-nw" means "no window" s= o even though you are in fact running under X11, you are telling Emacs that= it is not. In this mode, none of the "x-" variables have any meaning or p= urpose. Cheers, Mark