From Bugzilla Helper: 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:
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.
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.