Re: copy/paste to/from emacs

[Tim X]

Haizi Zheng <haizi_zh@yahoo.com.cn> writes:

> If you want to copy some text from emacs, and then paste it in another
> application in X environment, you can have try as add the line below to
> you .emacs file:
> 
> (global-set-key [C-f11] 'clipboard-kill-ring-save)
> 
> This will add a new bind, here is contrl-f11, to replace the default M-w
> when copying, then in the other application, the normal paste operation
> will work.
> 
> By this method, there are two key-bindings, respectively take charge of
> the internal-copy-paste affairs and that between eamcs and other 
> applications. I admit that this method is a little ugly, is there 
> anyone who has better solution on this issue?
> 

I just use mouse button 2 to paste into other applications 

Tim
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