From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:30:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20130103225809.GC13649@hysteria.proulx.com> <2D113F6751EB4E7F8003DD556B818ED4@us.oracle.com> <20130104001257.GA32352@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357590693 11555 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2013 20:31:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:31:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 21:31:48 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TsJMK-0000yi-0N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60196 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsJM4-0006Pu-8h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:31:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53997) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsJLu-0006Dv-UY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:31:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsJLt-0003vw-Oo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:31:22 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56115) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsJLt-0003vm-Id for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:31:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TsJM3-0000XU-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:31 +0100 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:31 +0100 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <20130104001257.GA32352@hysteria.proulx.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:88506 Archived-At: My personal preference that is cut from any application goes into one buffer and paste from any application comes from that buffer. That seems to be the Windows default. Linux has multiple buffers. I use Parcellite to keep them in sync. On 1/3/2013 7:12 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > "The Problem" was loss of emacs keyboard interaction with the X Window > primary selection cut buffer between v23 and v24. Cutting with the > mouse in some other X window application puts the text into the X > Windows cut buffer also known as the primary selection. In v23 > yanking text would copy text from that buffer. In v24 C-y no longer > yanked text in from it. In v24 C-y yank ignored the X Window primary > selection cut buffer. This breaks keyboard use. However paste using > the mouse still worked. >