From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Marsden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: copy/paste with other programs Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:56:07 +0100 Organization: LAAS-CNRS http://www.laas.fr/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068056422 21973 80.91.224.253 (5 Nov 2003 18:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 05 19:20:20 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHSGS-0002WT-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 19:20:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AHSBY-0006eV-AJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:15:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!freenix!ircam.fr!news.completel.fr!news.agarik.com!news.agarik.com!ciril.fr!univ-lille1.fr!news.cict.fr!news.laas.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: melbourne.laas.fr Original-X-Trace: kane.laas.fr 1068054967 1437 140.93.21.103 (5 Nov 2003 17:56:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@laas.fr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Nov 2003 17:56:07 GMT X-Message-Flags: Insufficient vodka to complete operation X-Eric-Conspiracy: there is no conspiracy X-Attribution: ecm X-URL: http://www.chez.com/emarsden/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117891 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13830 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13830 >>>>> "os" == Oliver Sturm writes: os> I'm probably being stupid :-) Still, here's my problem: I'm using Emacs os> 21.3.2 on Linux and I find myself unable to use the copying/pasting os> features with other apps. Specifically, it doesn't seem to be possible to os> paste anything copied from Evolution into an Emacs window and vice os> versa... but many other apps don't work, either. It doesn't seem to make os> any difference whether I just use the X clipboard or the Emacs yank os> command or whatever... just doesn't work. Why's that? the rationale for Emacs' behaviour is at -- Eric Marsden