From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13904 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2012 20:50:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 13885 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Aug 2012 20:50:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (HELO mailbackend.panix.com) (166.84.1.89) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:49:51 +0000 Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [166.84.1.3]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA12928D18 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 16:49:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: by panix3.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 19362) id E4E1A8FDEC; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 16:49:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45758FDDA for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 15:49:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:11:00 -0000 From: Tim McDaniel To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Windows clipboard and Emacs yank, kill-region, and kill-ring-save Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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/msg00194.txt.bz2 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? -- Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com -- 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