Re: Copying text from emacs to another application using M-w

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:43:43 -0500 Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> writes:
>>
>>>> By the way, there should be no difference whether I use C-y or middle
>>>> click.  So that is not the problem.
>>>
>>> I though on xterm you don't select simply by highlighting with the
>>> mouse.  After it is highlighted, in xterm try right mouse click and
>>> chose copy.
>>
>> Far as I know right mouse is used to extend a selection.  I have no
>> context menu under linux with right click.
>>
>> For it has always worked like this:
>      ^ me

My error, I was thinking of gnome-terminal not xterm.
sorry,
allan