On 2006-04-08 23:41:03 -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> Yes, if Emacs has anything saved in the killring, it will take
> precedence over the middle click. There are several ways to fix this.

Not here, and I don't have anything special in my ".emacs".
But putting something in the killring is equivalent to select
something.

> One is just to use text-based emacs (emacs -nw). It is nicer, in my
> opinion, and if you are using, say gnome-terminal, you can middle
> click and C-y seperately.

It is not nicer. If automatical indentation is on, pasting several
lines sometimes inserts spurious whitespace.

> If you want to use graphical emacs, there is a line that you can put
> into your .emacs file that says to talk to X about the clipboard.
> Unfortunately, I forgot what it is. (x-select-enable-clipboard, I
> think). Does anyone else know?

With the middle-click paste, one generally wants to paste the primary
selection, not the clipboard. Other interesting information here:

  http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

but it is easy to get lost...

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