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Date:      Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:00:03 +0700 (ICT)
From:      Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        mkb@incubus.de
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cut and paste in Emacs
Message-ID:  <200501191100.j0JB03EB001166@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <41E96F26.8020405@incubus.de> (message from Matthias Buelow on Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:29:42 %2B0100)
References:  <200501131424.j0DEOnvw001009@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <41E697DA.5090905@comcast.net> <41E8183C.50103@comcast.net> <41E96F26.8020405@incubus.de>

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> > I, personally, still don't completely understand the entire unix/X cut 
> > buffer system. First, there is more than one cut buffer, but I doubt 
> > that that's your problem. Second, there is select-to-copy and 
> > select+right click.../ctrl+c/... to copy. These use two different 
> 
> X11 cut&paste is a mess.. the OP might try to use xclipboard as an 
> intermediate target.  It often works, when two programs use different 
> mechanisms for selections.

If that can help to bring some light:

I run xcutsel, and when I click on copy o to PRIMARy, then the copied
selection from Emacs becomes available in Windows.

Olivier



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