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Re: copy/paste & Emacs on XWindows
From: |
Peter Lee |
Subject: |
Re: copy/paste & Emacs on XWindows |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:41:52 GMT |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 |
Ittay Dror <ittay@qlusters.com> writes:
> i have this hack:
> (defun if-copy-mark-to-primary-selection ()
> (if mark-active
> (x-set-selection 'PRIMARY (buffer-substring (region-beginning)
> (region-end)))))
>
> (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'if-copy-mark-to-primary-selection)
>
> what it does is copy the region to the primary selection, (which is not
> the clipboard), use the middle mouse button to paste it in another
> window. if you wish to copy to the clipboard, change PRIMARY to
> CLIPBOARD.
Thanks a bunch! I will try this when I get home. One other
thing... what about copying from clipboard to Emacs? Any tricks for
that ? Or should that just work as is?
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