From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to paste from Cygwin Emacs to Windows app using keyboard? Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:43:53 -0500 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366739596 13519 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2013 17:53:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 23 19:53:20 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 1UUhP5-0006za-0I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:53:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50740 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUhP4-0004KW-NR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:53:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p05abef6910f520b4fdfc485562126106ac5e4fb948a938ca.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Received-Bytes: 1695 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198044 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:53:09 -0400 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:90311 Archived-At: Die Mon Apr 22 2013 18:01:55 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) Alexandre Oberlin scripsit: > Hi all, > > I use Cygwin under Windows 7. I managed to paste from Windows into Emacs > by adding > '"shift insert": paste-from-clipboard' > to my .inputrc file. > > However I still cannot paste from Emacs into a Windows application > unless I use the mouse to select in Emacs. > > I have played with x-select-enable-clipboard, > interprogram-paste-function etc. with no avail. I do not run X on Cygwin. > > Any suggestion? > > Alexandre > > What happens if within emacs (assuming default bindings) you do: C-space or C-@ at beginning of region you want to select M-w at end and then C-v (or mouse) within W32 app? Btw, you can get most of the important emacs keybindings in w32 apps with Xkeymacs and in Mozilla products with keysnail. These can help reduce mousing around in w32. Ed