Re: Select-copy: a la emacs. How?

"Joseph C. Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I've been hunting around looking to figure out how to set the behavior 
> of xemacs to be like emacs so that selecting some text puts it in the 
> kill-ring (copy). It's driving me nuts, now, because it doesn's seem 
> that it should be so hard to find.

I would imagine you could do it by customizing the value of
mouse-track-up-hook but my elisp isn't up to telling you how :(  

As to why xemacs and emacs differ in this regard, see
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
You may or may not be convinced by Jamie's rationale.

On the positive side, xemacs does have some wonderfully
useful mouse behaviour that emacs afaik doesn't.

Try Ctl Mouse-1 and Sh-Ctl Mouse 1 (either dragging or
double-clicking). Once you get used to those, you'll 
wonder how you ever did without them.