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- From: marc@watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander)
- Subject: Re: Cut Buffer patch for emacs 18.57??
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- In-Reply-To: lovell@sgi.elec.uq.oz.au's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:44:56 GMT
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:42:14 GMT
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- In article <BxuIMx.KI7@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> lovell@sgi.elec.uq.oz.au (Brian Lovell) writes:
-
- >|>
- >|> I tried to use the following in my X resources, but it did not
- >|> work:
- >|>
- >|> XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \ +
- >|> ~Meta <Btn2Up>: insert-selection(CUT_BUFFER0,PRIMARY) +
- >|>
- >|> Or I'm not doing it correctly, or something.
- >|> --
- >|>
- >|> --
- >|>
-
- >I just tried your change to .Xresources and I can now cut from xterms and
- >paste into the xemacs editor. Looks like translations are useful after all.
-
- As I understand cut buffers, CUT_BUFFER0 is always definied, so the
- above is equivalent to insert-selection(CUT_BUFFER0). Thus it will fail
- for new apps which set the PRIMARY selection and don't bother to write
- the cut buffer.
-
- Can anyone who knows verify this?
- --
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- Marc Auslander (IBM)<marc@marc.watson.ibm.com> 914 784-6699
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