From:	bdarnell AT vnet DOT net (Ben Darnell)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: emacs mouse selection and clipboard
Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 1996 01:23:49 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> was overheard mumbling incoherently
about Re: emacs mouse selection and clipboard:


>On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Ben Darnell wrote:

>> How do I make emacs not copy to the clipboard every time I select
>> something with the mouse?

>Try this:

>	(setq x-select-enable-clipboard nil)

>Btw, when Emacs runs on X-Windows, it also puts every kill into the X 
>cliboard, so the DOS code just behaves in the same way.

>Just curious: why would you want to disable this?

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough.  I like that Emacs and Windows
use the same clipboard/kill ring, but what I wanted to disable is the
fact that everything I hilite with the mouse goes there.  I often
'scroll' by clicking in a window and pulling the mouse down.  (a lot
easier to hit anywhere in a window than the little button on the
scroll bar ;-)  It was rather annoying to kill some text, dragscroll
down to where I wanted to put it, hit C-y, and see the wrong text
appear.  However, now that I've had a few days to get more used to
Emacs's keyboard movement commands, I don't dragscroll much.  Pretty
soon I'll probably hilite something in Windows, forget to hit C-c, and
be surprised when it isn't copied ;).

L8r

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