Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/12/23:53:24
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> was overheard mumbling incoherently
about Re: emacs mouse selection and clipboard:
>On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Ben Darnell wrote:
>> How do I make emacs not copy to the clipboard every time I select
>> something with the mouse?
>Try this:
> (setq x-select-enable-clipboard nil)
>Btw, when Emacs runs on X-Windows, it also puts every kill into the X
>cliboard, so the DOS code just behaves in the same way.
>Just curious: why would you want to disable this?
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough. I like that Emacs and Windows
use the same clipboard/kill ring, but what I wanted to disable is the
fact that everything I hilite with the mouse goes there. I often
'scroll' by clicking in a window and pulling the mouse down. (a lot
easier to hit anywhere in a window than the little button on the
scroll bar ;-) It was rather annoying to kill some text, dragscroll
down to where I wanted to put it, hit C-y, and see the wrong text
appear. However, now that I've had a few days to get more used to
Emacs's keyboard movement commands, I don't dragscroll much. Pretty
soon I'll probably hilite something in Windows, forget to hit C-c, and
be surprised when it isn't copied ;).
L8r
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