Windows clipboard and Emacs yank, kill-region, and kill-ring-save

[Ken Brown]

On 8/19/2012 2:50 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:
> On 08/08/2012 06:17 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
>>> There have been some changes in how emacs handles selections,
>>> starting with emacs-24.1.  Look at the NEWS file ('C-h n') and
>>> search for "selection changes".  It describes the changes and tells
>>> you how to restore the old behavior.
>>
>> Yes!  The important one for me is
>>
>> (setq x-select-enable-primary t)
>>
>> Thank you very much for the quick and informative answer!
>
> Are you talking about X11 emacs, or emacs in a terminal?
>
> I have this in my ~/.emacs file on both Linux and Cygwin:
> (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
>
> I see in the news file that it's now set by default.
> It has always worked in graphical emacs but has never
> worked in a terminal on either Linux or Cygwin.
>
> But I sure would like it to work in a terminal.  Are you
> able to paste clipboard text in emacs in a terminal?

When I run emacs in mintty, I can paste clipboard text with Shift-Insert.

Ken


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