From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5244 invoked by alias); 29 Aug 2012 18:55:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 5234 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Aug 2012 18:55:40 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com (HELO mail-wi0-f179.google.com) (209.85.212.179) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:55:27 +0000 Received: by wibhq4 with SMTP id hq4so851018wib.2 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:55:26 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.95.193 with SMTP id dm1mr36157885wib.10.1346266526212; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.132.7 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:55:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <50315818.7030802@jackson.io> References: <5022D5EB.9020703@cornell.edu> <50313559.6060407@jackson.io> <50314483.9010605@cornell.edu> <50315818.7030802@jackson.io> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:43:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Windows clipboard and Emacs yank, kill-region, and kill-ring-save From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00641.txt.bz2 On 19 August 2012 22:18, Ken Jackson wrote: > On 08/19/2012 03:54 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> >> On 8/19/2012 2:50 PM, Ken Jackson wrote: >>> >>> 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 >> > Ah! That works! Thank you. > > But there are still a couple problems. > > 1) Shift-Insert is a huge improvement, but is still a little > clunky. I'd like to tie it to Shift-Ctrl-Y In mintty, you can enable Ctrl+Shift+letter shortcuts including Ctrl+Shift+Y for Paste on the Keys page of its options. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple