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Re: [h-e-w] Yank primary selection


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Yank primary selection
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:20:53 +0200

> From: Uday S Reddy <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:06:56 +0000
> 
> Hi all, how can I yank the text in the "primary selection" on Win32? 
> The Emacs manual seems to suggest that the normal yank should work.  But 
> it doesn't:
> 
> (x-get-selection 'PRIMARY)
> "https://www.google.com/";
> (yank)
> Windows Mousenil

There's no primary selection on Windows.  Emacs tries to emulate it,
but only within the same Emacs session.  It cannot do anything across
Emacs sessions, or between Emacs and other applications.  For that,
you only have the clipboard.



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