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Re: problem in pasting from an X-application into emacs 21
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: problem in pasting from an X-application into emacs 21 |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:21:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
"Howard E. Haber" <hhaber@pacbell.net> writes:
> I highlight the text in Window #1, and then attempt to paste it in my emacs
> window (either with C-y or the middle mouse button). Sometimes it works and
> sometimes it doesn't. When it does not work, what gets pasted in the emacs
> window is text from some previous paste within the emacs window.
>
> Has anyone ever encountered this? What is maddening is that when I test it
> out with fresh windows, it works properly for a while. But then it doesn't.
> What is going on? Nothing in the manual that I can see indicates why this
> might be happening.
Compare the value of the variables interprogram-cut-function and
interprogram-paste-function when it works and when it doesn't work.
Are they different?
C-h v tells you the value of a variable.
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