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Re: emacs paste from windows
- From: Elvin Peterson <elvin_peterson at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 03:58:55 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: emacs paste from windows
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
--- Ehud Karni wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:41:23, Elvin Peterson
> <elvin_peterson(at)yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does the clipboard paste from Windows to Emacs
> under X
> > work? I am able to paste from Emacs to Windows
> > programs, but nothing happends when I try the
> reverse.
>
> It works for me.
>
> Check 2 things:
> 1. That you use the clipboard with Xwin (-clipboard)
> in startxwin.
> From your ability to paste into windows it seems
> it is set.
Yes, I have used the -clipboard option.
> 2. Check the function your mouse click uses to paste
> (by C-h k).
that is down-mouse-2.
> The function that works for me is
> `x-get-selection'.
I see that executing (x-get-selection) doesn't get
the pasted text.
Thanks.
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