Re: clipboard cut/paste problem

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.05.2005 um 02:59 schrieb plaut:

> I'm having a problem getting emacs (21.4.1 under Linux) to import text
> from other applications via cut/paste.  I have the following in my
> .emacs:
>
> (setq-default x-select-enable-clipboard t)

You shouldn't do that! By this means everything you kill in GNU Emacs 
is put into the X clipboard and another copy is put into the primary 
selection. This is pollution.

> (setq interprogram-paste-function 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value)
>
> Any suggestions?

Deliberately copy something into the clipboard that this gets shared 
among all X clients! Most of what you kill is obviously scrap, 
otherwise you wouldn't kill it, would you? Besides there are in GNU 
Emacs functions like clipboard-kill-region or clipboard-kill-ring-save. 
And check mouse-insert-selection! This is what I use to import 
something into GNU Emacs. And what about 
x-get-selection/x-get-cut-buffer?

--
Greetings

  Pete