Hah, I see that my original response only went to ToddAndMargo, how dull-witted I must have been.
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:13 PM, The Sidhekin <sidhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1...@infinito.it> wrote: >> >> > I like Geany, but it does not support the "Secondary Selection" >> > clipboard. This clipboard would save me a bunch of time as >> > I would not lose my cursor hot spot. >> >> Emacs >> <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Secondary-Selection.html> > > > Out of the box, this will move the cursor ("placing point at the end of > the yanked text"). Precisely what the OP didn't want. > > But hey, emacs is nothing if not customizable. :) > > Just add to ~/.emacs (and eval the form, or restart emacs) the following > or something like it (TIMTOWTDI): > > (advice-add 'mouse-yank-secondary :around > #'(lambda (orig-fun &rest args) > "Preserve point and mark and stuff" > (save-excursion > (apply orig-fun args)))) There are some other tricks, too, sure: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SecondarySelection -- Jan
