Re: Simple copy & paste problem

[dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)]

In article <mailman.4.1281557372.27891.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Thierry Volpiatto  <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote:
>Joel James Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu> writes:
...
...
>
>You can't do that if emacs and firefox are on differents desktops.
>But you can use mouse2 (don't know for OSX).

     mouse2 -- what does that do?

>You can use that also:
>
>,----
>| (defun yank-from-clipboard ()
>|   (interactive)
>|   (let ((primary (x-selection 'PRIMARY)))
>|     (when primary (insert primary))))
>| (global-set-key (kbd "C-c v") 'yank-from-clipboard)
>`----
>
>Like that nothing is added to emacs kill-ring.
>
>If you don't mind adding to emacs kill-ring:
>
>,----
>| ;; (setq interprogram-paste-function 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value)
>| ;; (setq x-select-enable-primary t)
>`----


x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value is an alias for `x-get-selection-value' in `w32-fns.el'.
(x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value)

Return the value of the current selection.
Consult the selection, then the cut buffer.  Treat empty strings as if
they were unset.


What does that mean?  If there's a selection, use it,
else what's in the cut-buffer?   (cut-buffer -- what's that?)>

And that x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value -- not in 23.0.0.1.  ???



>-- 
>Thierry Volpiatto
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>
>

Thanks!

David