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Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard
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Micha Feigin |
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Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard |
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Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:16:49 +0200 |
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:06:58PM +0100, LEE Sau Dan wrote:
> >>>>> "Ian" == Ian Zimmerman <bayard@newsguy.com> writes:
>
> Carsten> Well, Lee you are right. I just experienced a lot of
> Carsten> trouble copying text from gtk2-emacs to
> Carsten> gtk2-mozilla-firebird and vice versa. Either via X
> Carsten> selection or CUA-like key strokes. Sometimes it works,
> Carsten> sometimes not.
>
> Ian> This has been discussed here at least twice before :-(
>
> Ian> I reported it to RMS, and he said "use gdb on Emacs". Which
> Ian> I won't, because recompiling Emacs on my laptop takes more
> Ian> than an hour.
>
> But how would that help, if you're not a C programmer or you're not
> familiar with Xlib, so that you have no idea of where to put break
> points?
>
> (BTW, it'd be fun to run gdb under Emacs, debugging another instance
> of Emacs. I hope one wouldn't be confused by the two Emacses. (-fg
> and -bg suddenly becomes invaluable!)
>
>
> Ian> Maybe someone with more resources can follow this path and
> Ian> finally get this fixed?
>
> How about an 'ltrace'? At least, it doesn't require recompiling the
> binary. I'm not sure if ltrace can show the Xlib calls, though.
>
>
> Carsten> a good idea making emacs compatible to the gtk2 toolkit,
> Carsten> and the gnome desktop environment.
>
> Ian> I don't get the connection here (how it would solve the
> Ian> problem), and anyway if you mean make gtk2 (and _especially_
> Ian> gnome) a dependency of Emacs, I am most definitely against.
>
> Me too. But Carsten means to make Emacs's cut&paste mechanism
> *compatible* with gtk2, kdelib, etc. (These libraries emulates the
> "clipboard" paradigm on top of X selections, providing some (but not
> completely) interoperability with clients that only understand X
> selections. I don't like it either.) This involves setting
> interacting with the "CLIPBOARD" selection. No need to use gtk2, etc.
> You can do that in Xlib.
>
Someone suggested at the beginning of the thread to use
(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
>From the little testing I've done (haven't had to do much yet) it seems
to have solved the problem. Could other people seeing the same problem
try this and see if it helps ?
It could be that this is somehow set as a default behavior either
site-wide or at compile time ?
>
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- emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Micha Feigin, 2004/01/10
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/01/11
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- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, LEE Sau Dan, 2004/01/12
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Carsten Weinberg, 2004/01/12
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- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Ian Zimmerman, 2004/01/13
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, LEE Sau Dan, 2004/01/13
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Carsten Weinberg, 2004/01/13
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/01/14
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Micha Feigin, 2004/01/14
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/01/14
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard,
Micha Feigin <=
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- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, LEE Sau Dan, 2004/01/15
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/01/17
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- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Kester Clegg, 2004/01/15
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Jeff, 2004/01/22
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/01/13
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- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Jens Schmidt, 2004/01/13
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Tim McNamara, 2004/01/13
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, LEE Sau Dan, 2004/01/14
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, LEE Sau Dan, 2004/01/13
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Kester Clegg, 2004/01/15