Re: remote xemacs and selection problem (using XWin -clipboard)

["Cary Jamison" <Cary dot Jamison at powerquest dot com>]

"Kris Thielemans" <kris.thielemans@csc.mrc.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:<NBBBKKHEOHOEPNCALMIGOEDADMAA.kris.thielemans@ic.ac.uk>...
> Hi
> 
> I have a problem running XEmacs remotely. When I press ctrl-space, I
do get
> 'mark set', but when I then press Ctrl-w to cut something, I get 'The
region
> is not active now'. I have exactly the same when selecting a region
with the
> mouse. The selection immediately disappears (presumably because of the
> clipboard functionality). Pressing ctrl-w then gives the above
message.

I'll make my usual recommendation - (I think this is the third time, so
a search of this group would have helped you).

I don't use -clipboard.  I have a shortcut to xwinclip and start/stop it
on demand.  This way the funky X selections in xterm and emacs don't
usually affect me.  If I need to copy/paste between X and MS-Windows I
start xwinclip and the close it afterwards.

Cary