Clipboard and emacs inside a terminal

Clipboard and emacs inside a terminal

[Mauricio]

Hi,

I'm using emacs in text mode instead of X. I
realized all 'clipboard-*' functions do not seem
to work. Is there something I could do about it?
Does that depends on the terminal emulator I'm
using ('mlterm' is what I'm using now)?

Thanks,
Maurício

Re: Clipboard and emacs inside a terminal

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 11.11.2008 um 12:35 schrieb Mauricio:

> I'm using emacs in text mode instead of X. I
> realized all 'clipboard-*' functions do not seem
> to work. Is there something I could do about it?


Yes: launch it as client of a windowing system!

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Re: Clipboard and emacs inside a terminal

[Mauricio]

>> I'm using emacs in text mode instead of X. I
>> realized all 'clipboard-*' functions do not seem
>> to work. Is there something I could do about it?
> 
> Yes: launch it as client of a windowing system!
> 

That's what I used to do, but I had worst problems
there. So, what I do now is to launch emacs out
of the terminal emulator to use clipboard. But as
far as I understand an application running inside
xterm or any other emulator have access to the
same API any other application has. So, why is this
a problem for emacs? Isn't it possible to "see"
X when you are running from a terminal? But then
how any other application I run from a shell would
be able to do that?

Maurício

Re: Clipboard and emacs inside a terminal

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 11.11.2008 um 13:47 schrieb Mauricio:

> But then how any other application I run from a shell would be able  
> to do that?


Because they're clients of the X server, *they are served by the X  
server*. GNU Emacs in xterm or any other terminal emulation is client  
of this terminal emulation. So teach that bloody terminal emulation  
to serve GNU Emacs properly!

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