Re: copy/paste with other programs

[Oliver Sturm]

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 18:23:52 +0100, Eric Marsden wrote:

> it behaves as expected for me with Emacs 21.2 and 21.3. Check the value of
> the variable interprogram-paste-function: it should be
> x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value, which checks the PRIMARY selection first
> as COMPOUND_TEXT, then as STRING. 

It is x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value.

> Also check that
> x-select-enable-clipboard is nil.

It is.

> Try selecting text in Evolution then evaluating
> 
>    M-: (x-get-selection 'PRIMARY 'COMPOUND_TEXT)
> 
> If that returns the selected text but Emacs middle-click doesn't, I think
> it's due to some non-default setting of yours.

It returns the same text that I get when using the middle button, which is
definitely not the text selected in Evolution. If I hit the middle button
over a shell window or gvim or whatever immediately afterwards, I get the
correct text, only Emacs doesn't show it.

Hey, don't worry too much about this. I have already found that although I
can't see the reason for this, it works with the other combination of
software versions for Emacs and Evolution I wrote about. So I'll just
upgrade the system I'm using now sometime and things will probably be fine
:-)

Of course, if you are curious and you have further ideas, I'll be happy to
test some more.


               Oliver Sturm
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