Francisco Vila <paconet....@gmail.com> writes: > 2011/12/8 <d...@gnu.org>: >> What you don't understand is that Emacs is no longer scanning your >> weaknesses of understanding and kneeing you in the gut whenever you do >> something as careless as typing a backspace. > > Copying/pasting from/to other programs in/from Emacs still appear in > my scan. I never know when it will work and when it will not. Only > center-click usually works.
Center click copies the active selection. To copy the active selection into the clip board, try the explicit act of M-w in Emacs. The mouse highlighting (and selection) disappears, but now the paste button in the other application works. And vice versa. X _has_ separate mechanisms for a highlighted selection and the clipboard. Other applications work similarly. They usually make things easier by intermingling those two things. Emacs doesn't. One reason is that a common workflow is killing a region in one buffer (C-w) and pasting it in another one (C-y). If another X application, like a browser coming up with a page with a highlighted entry, steals the selection in between, you don't really want to have Emacs overwrite its last kill with it. You can customize Emacs to mix those behaviors as well, but if you develop habitual workflows where this mix is useful, chances are that you will lose information unintendedly at one time. With a web browser, the source of information usually is not touched. With an editor, it is. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
