Re: emacs -nw: share mouse cut & pastes from other X windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 10 Jan 2002 04:25:15 +0800
> 
> It occurred to me that "emacs -nw" could be enhanced so that C-y could
> recall shared mouse cut & paste stuff from other X windows just like
> regular emacs can do.  <m2k7v5tqp7.fsf@dan.jacobson.tw> is a thread
> about this in bash.

The URL you posted doesn't work for me.  Could you post the forum and
the subject instead?

In any case, I'm guessing that implementing this requires Emacs to be
built with X support.  In other words, Emacs built with --without-x
will not be able to access the X selection.

(I'm not saying I'm against the feature.)