CLIPBOARD vs PRIMARY

CLIPBOARD vs PRIMARY

Posted Mar 3, 2005 11:30 UTC (Thu) by cyd (subscriber, #4153)
In reply to: CLIPBOARD vs PRIMARY by tialaramex
Parent article: A day in the life of emacs

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.

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