From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windows clipboard and Emacs yank, kill-region, and kill-ring-save
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50314483.9010605@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50313559.6060407@jackson.io>
On 8/19/2012 2:50 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:
> On 08/08/2012 06:17 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yes! The important one for me is
>>
>> (setq x-select-enable-primary t)
>>
>> Thank you very much for the quick and informative answer!
>
> Are you talking about X11 emacs, or emacs in a terminal?
>
> I have this in my ~/.emacs file on both Linux and Cygwin:
> (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
>
> I see in the news file that it's now set by default.
> It has always worked in graphical emacs but has never
> worked in a terminal on either Linux or Cygwin.
>
> But I sure would like it to work in a terminal. Are you
> able to paste clipboard text in emacs in a terminal?
When I run emacs in mintty, I can paste clipboard text with Shift-Insert.
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-19 19:55 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
2012-08-08 23:04 ` Tim McDaniel
2012-08-19 19:29 ` Ken Jackson
2012-08-19 20:32 ` Ken Brown [this message]
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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