Re: copy/paste & Emacs on XWindows

[Ittay Dror]

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 23:25, Roman A. Lagunov wrote:
> >>>>> "PL" ==> Peter Lee  writes:
> 
>  PL> Is there something special you have to do to get copy/paste
>  PL> working between emacs and other apps on xwindows ?
> 
>  PL> If I M-w some text in emacs it doesn't appear to store it in the
>  PL> "clipboard" (whatever the xwindows equivalent of that is).
> 
>  You can try to do it with mouse - just drag around block of text you
>  want to yank.
> 
>  Then, in xterm for exapmle, just click middle button.
>  
>  That's a trick. It's works perfectly for me.
i have this hack:
(defun if-copy-mark-to-primary-selection ()
  (if mark-active
          (x-set-selection 'PRIMARY (buffer-substring (region-beginning)
(region-end)))))

(add-hook 'post-command-hook 'if-copy-mark-to-primary-selection)

what it does is copy the region to the primary selection, (which is not
the clipboard), use the middle mouse button to paste it in another
window. if you wish to copy to the clipboard, change PRIMARY to
CLIPBOARD.

hope it helps,
ittay
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