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

>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph C Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Joseph> I've been hunting around looking to figure out how to set
    Joseph> the behavior of xemacs to be like emacs so that selecting
    Joseph> some text puts it in the kill-ring (copy).

It's possible, but not easy.  The problem is that in fact that's not
what Emacs does; it does something far more complicated because for
many users that behavior, implemented naively, really gets in the way
of other functionality.

The obvious try is something like (untested)

(defun select-and-copy ()
  (own-clipboard)
  (copy-region-as-kill (region-beginning) (region-end)))

(setq interprogram-cut-function 'select-and-copy)

But you'll end up with lots of garbage in your kill-ring, I think.

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