From: LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Subject: Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard
Date: 12 Jan 2004 18:59:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wu7xgi9t.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.387.1073803639.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:
Eli> Emacs pastes from X only if you didn't issue any command that
Eli> kills text since the last X selection was made. In other
Eli> words, if you select text in another application, then
Eli> immediately paste inside Emacs, you should get the text you
Eli> selected in that other application.
Not always. I've been experiencing this annoying for some time. I
think the OP has got the same problem that I encounter. Select text
in xterm, and C-y in Emacs (or middle-click) while seeing the text
still highlighted in xterm. Emacs pastes from the king-ring, not the
selection. With the text still highlighted in xterm, middle-click on
other apps and they all get the highlighted text from the xterm.
Worse yet, this behaviour is quite random (to me). Sometimes, C-y
does paste from a selection (form whatever other X-clients).
Sometimes, it just pastes from the kill-ring, as if there were not
selections at all. I still haven't figured out the rules of when
Emacs behaves one way and when the other. So, to me it's "random".
Eli> This is so because each text you kill in Emacs is
Eli> automatically put into the X selection, so if you do that
Eli> before pasting from X, the text you kill in Emacs overshadows
Eli> the previous X selection in another application.
I do understand how the X selection mechanism works. I've even
programmed it in C/Xlib. That does not stop Emacs from misbehaving,
though.
--
Lee Sau Dan 李守敦(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ)
E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-11 0:26 emacs doesn't use the X clipboard Micha Feigin
2004-01-11 5:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2004-01-12 17:59 ` LEE Sau Dan [this message]
2004-01-13 0:18 ` Carsten Weinberg
[not found] ` <mailman.495.1073964322.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-13 5:00 ` Ian Zimmerman
2004-01-13 12:06 ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-01-13 18:35 ` Carsten Weinberg
2004-01-14 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-14 7:59 ` Micha Feigin
2004-01-14 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-14 7:16 ` Micha Feigin
[not found] ` <mailman.606.1074062176.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-14 21:40 ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-01-17 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.665.1074118187.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-15 12:49 ` Kester Clegg
2004-01-22 21:29 ` Jeff
2004-01-13 11:23 ` Jens Schmidt
2004-01-13 12:22 ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-01-15 12:51 ` Kester Clegg
2004-01-15 21:44 ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-01-18 23:54 ` Ian Zimmerman
2004-01-15 16:26 ` Jens Schmidt
2004-01-13 14:38 ` Tim McNamara
2004-01-13 22:19 ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-01-13 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.510.1073976607.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-13 12:28 ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-01-13 15:50 ` Maurizio Loreti
2004-01-13 18:13 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2004-01-13 22:14 ` LEE Sau Dan
[not found] ` <mailman.545.1074017499.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-15 12:54 ` Kester Clegg
2004-01-15 21:56 ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-01-13 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.542.1074014317.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-14 21:34 ` LEE Sau Dan
[not found] <mailman.381.1073784888.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-11 13:02 ` Henrik Enberg
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