Re: Experience with latest CVS on Mac OS X 10.1.5 and XDarwin 1.1

Chris Palmer wrote: Probably harmless. It isn't. Whereas Windows (and presumably MacOS) has a concept of "the clipboard", X has a potentially unlimited number of "selections". Of these, two are commonly used. The "primary selection" generally corresponds to the highlighted text; this is the data which will normally be pasted when pressing the middle mouse button. You can bind a key to this operation with e.g.: (define-key global-map '(meta insert) 'x-insert-selection) This will allow you to paste the primary selection with Meta-Insert ("Meta" is probably going to be labelled with "Alt" or that four-leaf-clover shape; it's whatever key you have to use for "M-x"). The "clipboard" is a separate selection which behaves like the Windows clipboard. You have to explicitly cut or copy data to the clipboard before you can paste it. In XEmacs, Ctrl-Insert copies the highlighted text to the clipboard ("copy"), while Shift-Insert pastes the contents of the clipboard ("paste"). You can bind a key to the "cut" operation with e.g.: (define-key global-map '(shift delete) 'kill-primary-selection) As well as those, XEmacs has the "kill ring". This is internal to XEmacs, although the default is to make some attempt at keeping it synchronised with the clipboard. The kill ring is manipulated with Ctrl-w, Meta-w and Ctrl-y (cut, copy, paste, respectively). Among X applications, most support the primary selection; some also support the clipboard. In all probability, the X primary selection and clipboard will be completely independent of the MacOS selection and/or clipboard unless there is some utility which specifically synchronises the two. -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net&gt;