Re: emacs -nw: share mouse cut & pastes from other X windows

[Jason Rumney]

jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes:

> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> 
> >> It occurred to me that "emacs -nw" could be enhanced so that C-y could
> >> recall shared mouse cut & paste stuff from other X windows just like
> >> regular emacs can do.  <m2k7v5tqp7.fsf@dan.jacobson.tw> is a thread
> >> about this in bash.
> 
> Eli> The URL you posted doesn't work for me.  Could you post the forum and
> Eli> the subject instead?
> 
> Odd, how could I, with the Junior Edition brain, find the referenced
> article with a mere j command in gnus

Most of the Emacs developers get gnu.emacs.bug by email, not through
Usenet, so the article reference you posted above is not valid in the
context they are reading your post in. For the benefit of Eli and
others, here is the original article:


From: jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson)
Subject: want bash's C-y to hear mouse snarfs from other windows
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Date: 30 Dec 2001 09:57:40 +0800
Organization: Taiwan
Reply-To: jidanni@yahoo.com.tw

If I snarf things up with my mouse from my bash window, I can spit
them back out with C-y in emacs.  However the reverse isn't true.  I
must hit the middle mouse key.
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