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Re: How to make most functions don't modify X CLIPBOARD?


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: How to make most functions don't modify X CLIPBOARD?
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:13:47 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

doltes wrote:

> I've noticed that the following functions insert the killed content to
> the CLIPBOARD.
>
> + kill-region (C-w)
> + kill-line (C-k)
> + kill-word (M-d)
> + backward-kill-word (M-DEL)

Really? That doesn't seem to happen for me...

> The reason I want to do this is because I suppose that
> whenever one of those functions (presented in the list
> above) is executed, the content is copied to both the "kill
> ring" and the CLIPBOARD, and I don't want my computer to use
> resources inserting something, into the X clipboard, which
> is not going to be pasted to another application.

Try

  (setq select-enable-clipboard nil)

perhaps?

But I don't know since I have that t and it still doesn't
happen for me :)

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