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Re: Windows clipboard and Emacs yank, kill-region, and kill-ring-save


On 8/19/2012 2:50 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:
On 08/08/2012 06:17 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
There have been some changes in how emacs handles selections,
starting with emacs-24.1.  Look at the NEWS file ('C-h n') and
search for "selection changes".  It describes the changes and tells
you how to restore the old behavior.

Yes! The important one for me is


(setq x-select-enable-primary t)

Thank you very much for the quick and informative answer!

Are you talking about X11 emacs, or emacs in a terminal?


I have this in my ~/.emacs file on both Linux and Cygwin:
(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)

I see in the news file that it's now set by default.
It has always worked in graphical emacs but has never
worked in a terminal on either Linux or Cygwin.

But I sure would like it to work in a terminal.  Are you
able to paste clipboard text in emacs in a terminal?

When I run emacs in mintty, I can paste clipboard text with Shift-Insert.


Ken


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