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Re: mouseless copying to clipboard


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: mouseless copying to clipboard
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:31:13 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux)

Silvio Levy <levy@msri.org> writes:

> I'd like to be able to copy text to my X-clipboard without using the
> mouse.  The problem is that I like to use emacs -nw for reasons I
> won't go into, and it doesn't seem to work.  That is, if i run
>
> (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
>
> and then set mark, move point, M-w, the selection is not saved to my
> X-clipboard. I've confirmed it works when I call emacs without the -nw
> option.
>
> Is there a solution?  I'm running the version below on Ubuntu 10.04.

"emacs -nw" means "do not connect to any X server".


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