Re: The X window system, yanking, and pasting using the mouse

[Manoj Srivastava]

On Thu, Jan 27 2011, David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> First place in your ~/.emacs:
>
> (global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-at-click)
>
> Then do:
>
> mouse-drag-copy-region t
> select-active-regions nil
> x-select-enable-primary t
> x-select-enable-clipboard nil
>
> I also acknowledge the customisations are confusing.  I still do not
> see a way to make a saner scheme without breaking some source-code
> backward compatibility (n.b. a saner scheme should be possible with
> "user visible behaviour" backward compatibility.)

        Thanks. If these instructions are added to NEWS, us old timers
 would be happy, I think.

        manoj
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