[lug] silly emacs

[John Karns]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, David said:

> * In Emacs if I double-leftclick on a word, or if I mark a region by
>   holding down the left button, dragging, and releasing the button,
>   then I copy the marked text into the kill-ring (= Win:clipboard).
>   After doing this I can paste that copied text at point (= left side
>   of the cursor) by clicking the middle button.  I can paste this way
>   any number of times; and I can move the cursor anywhere and it keeps
>   on pasting.  "Anywhere" includes any other application, such as
>   Konqueror, Netscape, StarOffice, another Emacs, etc.; however
>   sometimes the recipient (e.g. StarOffice) seems to require C-v
>   rather than a middle click.

I believe that this method uses the X clipboard, which also works with
vim, etc.

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