Package: emacs21 Version: 21.4a+1-5 Severity: normal By default emacs doesn't use the clipboard at all. This is a problem with apps that don't use the primary selection (like wine apps). The behaviour should be: kill/yank => use clipboard. Mouse select/ middle button => use primary selection. Emacs has the option x-select-enable-clipboard which is described as:
Non-nil means cutting and pasting uses the clipboard. This is in addition to, but in preference to, the primary selection. If this variable is set to t, emacs uses the clipboard for kill/yank as well as for mouse select/middle button. Thus, as soon as there is something in the clipboard, it's no longer possible to transfer text to emacs through the primary selection by using mouse select/middle button. This is really annoying. On the other hand, emacs will overwrite the clipboard, as soon as text is selected with the mouse in emacs. The second annoyance. See the follwing example: Clipbard is empty. other app: mouse select text "primary" emacs : middle button => pastes "primary" (OK) emacs : yank => pastes "primary" (this is wrong) other app: copy text "clipboard" emacs : middle button => pastes "clipboard" (OK) emacs : yank => pastes "clipbard" (OK) other app: mouse select text "primary" emacs : middle button => pastes "clipbard" (wrong) emacs : yank => pastes "clipboard" (OK) emacs : mouse select text "primary" other app: middle button => pasted "primary" (OK) other app: paste => pastes "primary" (wrong) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=POSIX, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages emacs21 depends on: ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a+1-5 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libungif4g 4.1.4-4 shared library for GIF images ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-6 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-14 Xaw3d widget set ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime emacs21 recommends no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
