From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windows clipboard and Emacs yank, kill-region, and kill-ring-save
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5022D5EB.9020703@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1208081535090.21986@panix3.panix.com>
On 8/8/2012 4:49 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> I have updated my packages to the latest versions. I have long had
> installed
> - emacs
> - emacs-X11
> - emacs-el
> - xemacs-emacs-common
> - X11
>
> In Emacs, ^Y is the default keystroke for the basic "yank", to paste
> the contents of the most recently element of the kill ring (the text
> most recently cut or copied in Emacs). Until some time in the past
> few weeks, I am 80% sure that ^Y would grab out of the Windows
> clipboard -- that is, I could copy in Windows using ^C or Ctrl-Ins,
> and then use ^Y in Emacs to paste it.
>
> But I think that sometime in the last few weeks, perhaps with the
> end-of-July update of Emacs in Cygwin, it stopped working. Now, ^Y
> only pastes what was killed (or copied) in Emacs. Similarly, if I
> kill or copy text in Emacs, it's not put into the Window clipboard.
>
> Any Emacs users out there?
>
> Am I misremembering the old behavior? At home I use Linux, and there
> the X clipboard and Emacs clipboard usually work together (modulo
> X having more than one).
>
> If I'm not, did something change, and can I do some setting to obviate
> it in Emacs?
There have been some changes in how emacs handles selections, starting
with emacs-24.1. Look at the NEWS file ('C-h n') and search for
"selection changes". It describes the changes and tells you how to
restore the old behavior.
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-08 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-08 21:11 Tim McDaniel
2012-08-08 21:59 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2012-08-08 23:04 ` Tim McDaniel
2012-08-19 19:29 ` Ken Jackson
2012-08-19 20:32 ` Ken Brown
2012-08-19 22:05 ` Ken Jackson
2012-08-19 23:22 ` Ken Brown
2012-08-29 19:43 ` Andy Koppe
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