From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:44:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87vd7g9ang.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281566683 7548 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2010 22:44:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:44:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 12 00:44:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjK2L-00080H-PZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:44:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39471 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjK2L-0008AF-Cp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:44:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54526 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjK1u-00087J-Ij for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjK1t-00033G-Ga for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:44:14 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjK1t-00033A-6C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:44:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjK1p-0007ps-MJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:44:09 +0200 Original-Received: from xdsl-89-0-14-232.netcologne.de ([89.0.14.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:44:09 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by xdsl-89-0-14-232.netcologne.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:44:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: xdsl-89-0-14-232.netcologne.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fynytNMh+KSXB4zF+tdZpmHCgtg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74558 Archived-At: Thierry Volpiatto writes: > > You can't do that if emacs and firefox are on differents desktops. > But you can use mouse2 (don't know for OSX). > 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) > `---- > That would be good but then I should use two different key bindings for pasting, which is a bit annoying. I also found this variable (by the way, how to you write with that nice style? This "cut here" is a bit too much... --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- x-select-enable-clipboard is a variable defined in `C source code'. It is void as a variable. Documentation: Non-nil means cutting and pasting uses the clipboard. This is in addition to, but in preference to, the primary selection. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Would not be possible to avoid overwriting the clipboard entry with the last entry killed? Or is there a way to understand from emacs if something is copied on the on the operating system clipboard?