Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Clipboard from mlterm

[Benjamin R. H. <ml...@be...>]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Mauricio wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Using emacs inside mlterm, I realized it can't access the clipboard to 
> copy or paste. Is there a reason for terminal applications not to be 
> able to use (one of the many, I think) clipboard? Maybe emacs thinks 
> that, since it's running in a terminal, there's no X and no clipboard 
> available. But if any other terminal application actually tries to touch 
> the clipboard, is there a reason why it would not be able to do that 
> inside mlterm (or xterm, rxvt etc.)?

Hi Mauricio,

I don't have any trouble with emacs (emacs -nw) accessing the clipboard in 
mlterm, either the "mouse-y" copy-paste or otherwise.

See the following, though:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/CopyAndPaste
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

Best,
Ben


Version information, in case it affects something:

$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 22.3.1

$ mlterm --version
mlterm version 2.9.4 pre/cvs-1.949

$ enlightenment-config --version
0.16.999.041

$ Xorg -version
X.Org X Server 1.5.2