Re: users and selection changes

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> I only know the answer for the following question:
>
>   Why does selecting text with the mouse inside Emacs doesn't make the
>   selected text end up in the kill ring and in the X clipboard?
>
> The answer to that is customize mouse-drag-copy-region to a non-nil
> value.

(setq x-select-enable-primary t)

helps a bit too, doesn't it?

> If the above question is not what you meant, please explain what is
> the meaning of "copying something in X".  Specifically, what gestures
> are needed for "copying something", and does "in X" mean in the Emacs
> session or in some other X application?

If I double-click a word in Firefox, and then say `C-y' in Emacs, I'm
not getting that word yanked in Emacs any more.

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