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Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:33:36 +0200

> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:16:21 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
> But mouse-2 does not seem to paste what I've selected (even if I use
> `M-w'). I just get the error "No selection is available".

Selections don't work on text terminals, by design.  You will see that
on Windows mouse-2 does paste text cut/copied in another application,
but that's largely an incident, a side effect of implementation
details.  Copying into the clipboard from a text-terminal session is
disabled.



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