-clipboard mark-region cut and paste xemacs dilemma in cygwin xfree86

2003-08-14 Thread terrence brannon 
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I am between a rock and a hard place. If I start X-windows without
the -clipboard option, then I cannot cut and paste between my windows web
browser (mozilla) and my x-terminals using the middle mouse button.

If I do start X-windows with the -clipboard option, then Xemacs seems to not
be able to mark the region. Or rather, just after marking the region via the
mouse or by hitting ctrl-space and moving to the other end of the region, I
cannot use the region with the error: Region is not active now

This is my cygwin X-windows startup file

export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0



#XWin -unixkill -rootless -emulate3buttons -clipboard 
#XWin -unixkill  -emulate3buttons -clipboard 
XWin -unixkill  -emulate3buttons  


wmaker 
#openbox 
#fvwm 

# lesstiff *

xterm -sb -bg white -fg darkblue -cr red -ms red -bd red -geometry
80x20+532+0 -name center 
xterm -sb -bg white -fg darkblue -cr red -ms red -bd red -geometry
80x20+1033+0 -name right 
xterm -sb -bg white -fg darkblue -cr red -ms red -bd red -geometry
80x20-70+0 -name large 
#xterm -sb -bg white -fg darkblue -cr red -ms red -bd red -geometry
215x88-70+0 -name large 

xhost +
ipconfig /all
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Re: -clipboard mark-region cut and paste xemacs dilemma in cygwin xfree86

2003-08-14 Thread Cary Jamison 
terrence brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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 (How's that for a google-searchable title :))
 
 I am between a rock and a hard place. If I start X-windows without
 the -clipboard option, then I cannot cut and paste between my windows
web
 browser (mozilla) and my x-terminals using the middle mouse button.
 
 If I do start X-windows with the -clipboard option, then Xemacs seems
to not
 be able to mark the region. Or rather, just after marking the region
via the
 mouse or by hitting ctrl-space and moving to the other end of the
region, I
 cannot use the region with the error: Region is not active now

(As Harold mentions, this has been discussed before, including my
suggestion below.)

You might want to consider not using -clipboard and starting/stopping
xwinclip as needed.
This works for me, because I find I do not need to do a lot of
copying/pasting between X
and Windows, and prefer to have selection work properly in emacs and
xterms.

Cary