> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 22:31:31 +0000 > From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.re...@cs.bham.ac.uk> > Cc: Uday S Reddy <u.s.re...@cs.bham.ac.uk>, > help-emacs-windows@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > There's no primary selection on Windows. Emacs tries to emulate it, > > but only within the same Emacs session. It cannot do anything across > > Emacs sessions, or between Emacs and other applications. For that, > > you only have the clipboard. > > Ok, that is fine. So, what can I use for stuffing text, so that I can > paste them in other applications?
In which version of Emacs? In Emacs 23, either C-w/M-w or dragging a mouse across the text will put it into the Windows clipboard, and you can then paste it into another application (C-y or mouse-2 if that other application is Emacs). In Emacs 24, only keyboard keys, like C-w/M-w copy text into the clipboard, and only C-y paste it from the clipboard.
