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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 17:17:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tim McDaniel <tmcd AT panix DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Windows clipboard and Emacs yank, kill-region, and kill-ring-save
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
> There have been some changes in how emacs handles selections,
> starting with emacs-24.1.  Look at the NEWS file ('C-h n') and
> search for "selection changes".  It describes the changes and tells
> you how to restore the old behavior.

Yes!  The important one for me is

(setq x-select-enable-primary t)

Thank you very much for the quick and informative answer!

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Tim McDaniel, tmcd AT panix DOT com

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