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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote in message
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>
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Peter Ashford wrote:
>
> > I wanted to turn off the mouse selection / pasting feature of emacs.  I
> > tried putting  (mouse-sel-mode nil) in my .emacs file but that didn't
work.
>
> Does it help to set the variables interprogram-cut-function and
> interprogram-paste-function to nil?
>
>

No, it didn't.  What do those variables do?

Cheers,

Peter.