From: bdarnell AT vnet DOT net (Ben Darnell) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: emacs mouse selection and clipboard Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 01:23:49 GMT Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <56b7rb$qe@ralph.vnet.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: vts-char5-s12.vnet.net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli Zaretskii 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 __ __ /> /_ /| / /\ /| /> /| / /_ / / /> /_ / |/ /_/ /-| / \ / |/ /_ /_ /_ http://users.vnet.net/bdarnell bdarnell AT vnet DOT net