help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

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
User-agent: 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.

-- 
~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn    (Frank Nobis)


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]