On 19 August 2012 22:18, Ken Jackson wrote: > On 08/19/2012 03:54 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> >> On 8/19/2012 2:50 PM, Ken Jackson wrote: >>> >>> 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 >> > Ah! That works! Thank you. > > But there are still a couple problems. > > 1) Shift-Insert is a huge improvement, but is still a little > clunky. I'd like to tie it to Shift-Ctrl-Y
In mintty, you can enable Ctrl+Shift+letter shortcuts including Ctrl+Shift+Y for Paste on the Keys page of its options. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple