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CLIPBOARD vs PRIMARY
CLIPBOARD vs PRIMARY
Posted Mar 3, 2005 10:43 UTC (Thu) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)Parent article: A day in the life of emacs
Does anyone (the LWN editor included) know whether GNU Emacs has correct behaviour concerning the X clipboard in this next version?
XEmacs correctly distinguishes between the CLIPBOARD and the PRIMARY selection, but GNU Emacs seems, iirc, to ignore CLIPBOARD altogether, making it difficult to use in conjunction with modern apps that obey ICCCM and Freedesktop standards. I'm told that yet another M-blah-blah-blah option was added, but that's no substitute for simply doing the Right Thing™.
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CLIPBOARD vs PRIMARY
Posted Mar 3, 2005 11:30 UTC (Thu) by cyd (subscriber, #4153) [Link]
Short answer: yes, but it's not on by default.
You can make killing and yanking consult the clipboard if you set x-select-enable-clipboard to t. The default is nil, except on MS Windows where there is no primary selection.