Bug 63910

Summary:	Can't copy from emacs into other applications
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Tom Moertel <tom>
Component:	emacs	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Tom Moertel 2002-04-21 18:09:58 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417

Description of problem:
When copying a block of text from with emacs, either by C-w, M-w, or selection,
the text never makes it to the "system clipboard," from where it can be pasted
into other applications.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a bunch of text into emacs.
2. Copy it to the clipboard (via, say, M-< M-> M-w).
3. Start up gedit. "gedit&"
4. Paste the selection into gedit.
5. Start up Mozilla and compose a new email.
6. Try to paste the selection into the new email.

Actual Results:  Whatever was previously on the system clipboard (often nothing)
is pasted into the destination application.

Expected Results:  The copied selection from with emacs should be pasted into
the destination application.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tom Moertel 2002-04-25 02:08:10 UTC

To make Emacs talk to the X clipboard, just set (or customize)
x-select-enable-clipboard to t.  Perhaps the /etc/skel/.emacs file should do
this by default.  After all, the default RHL installation configurations (except
for Server) are X-based.

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-04-26 19:23:30 UTC

It's a difference of opinion how to copy/paste it.... as tom writes,
you can define it yourself.

While you can't use the copy/paste, observe that you can use the standard X
mid-mouse paste mechanism, which is what the Emacs developers seem to prefer.