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Re: How do I paste at new point with middle click?


From: Bruce Korb
Subject: Re: How do I paste at new point with middle click?
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 18:12:51 -0700

This link?

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyAndPaste

Can't get it to work. What I really want is all paste-able text to be
in the x-clipboard
so that it is accessible from other applications and it gets pasted in
emacs whether
I use Ctl-Y or middle-mouse-button. How that happens, I don't care. I
do *NOT* want
to have to think about "how do I get these characters into the
paste-able buffer?"
Am I going to paste with middle mouse in an Xterm? With middle mouse in emacs?
with Ctl-Y in emacs? With Ctl-V in some other app? I DO NOT KNOW AND I DO NOT
WANT TO CARE, either. that "wiki" page is too obtuse for me to figure
how to do it.
I'm a newbie. I've only been using emacs since 1984.
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 3:16 PM Bruce Korb <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I take it back. It is actually back to sometimes using the clipboard
> and sometimes using the primary selection and I am finding it pretty
> difficult to figure out which is which. I was apparently using the
> right pairings for a while, but got bitten. "leave it alone" would
> have been a better option. :( Is there some place with a set of elisp
> commands I can add to my .emacs file to make it all go back to normal?
> This is really confusing and really bad.
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 2:36 PM Bruce Korb <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 12:20 PM Bruce Korb <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I found online help and managed to get *most* of the habitual behavior 
> > > back.
> > > The one hangout item is middle button pasting at point instead of current
> > > mouse location. I could probably retrain myself, but I would rather not.
> > > The three click copy-n-paste was so convenient....
> >
> >
> > After stopping and restarting the behavior remained unchanged.
> > I've since rebooted. It is back to normal behavior. Maybe it was
> > an X-windows database thing. I didn't play with xrdb while I was futzing,
> > so I don't know if that would have cleared the issue. Rebooting did.
> > Thank you for taking the time to answer! :)
>
>
>
> --
>  - Bruce



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 - Bruce



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