Cut and paste in Emacs

Olivier Nicole on at cs.ait.ac.th
Wed Jan 19 03:00:12 PST 2005


> > I, personally, still don't completely understand the entire unix/X cut 
> > buffer system. First, there is more than one cut buffer, but I doubt 
> > that that's your problem. Second, there is select-to-copy and 
> > select+right click.../ctrl+c/... to copy. These use two different 
> 
> X11 cut&paste is a mess.. the OP might try to use xclipboard as an 
> intermediate target.  It often works, when two programs use different 
> mechanisms for selections.

If that can help to bring some light:

I run xcutsel, and when I click on copy o to PRIMARy, then the copied
selection from Emacs becomes available in Windows.

Olivier


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