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Re: emacs paste from windows
- From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:12:33 +0200
- Subject: Re: emacs paste from windows
- Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies
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- Reply-to: ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il
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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.
2. Check the function your mouse click uses to paste (by C-h k).
The function that works for me is `x-get-selection'.
Ehud.
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