[14336] in Athena Bugs
emacs19
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu May 9 18:02:41 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 18:02:33 EDT
This isn't really a bug, but it is a significant interface change
between emacs 18 and 19, and I really like the old functionality.
Under emacs18 the X cut buffer and the emacs cut buffer were
completely seperate. I regularly made use of this by selecting some
text in an xterm going to my emacs cutting a region (C-w) and pasting
in the text form the xterm. (I've use it in other ways too, but this
is a nice somple example). However, under emacs19 the act of cutting
a region puts it in the X cut buffer, removing what I had there. I've
tried the following elisp:
(setq interprogram-cut-function nil)
which solves the problem, but creates another one. Selecting a region
in emacs19 with the left and right mouse buttons does *not* put that
text in the x cut buffer under this setup. This means I can't do
things like select URL's from email and paste them into my web browser
(I read my email with mh-rmail).
emacs19 seems to have married the two cut buffers far more than they
were in emacs18. Is there any way I can divorce them? Is there
somefunction I can run that will take what ever is in the emacs cut
buffer and put it in the X cut buffer? or do I just lose?
Jonathon
