@end ifnottex
@menu
-* Cut and Paste:: Mouse commands for cut and paste.
+* Mouse Commands:: Moving, cutting, and pasting, with the mouse.
+* Word and Line Mouse:: Mouse commands for selecting whole words or lines.
* Mouse References:: Using the mouse to select an item from a list.
* Menu Mouse Clicks:: Mouse clicks that bring up menus.
* Mode Line Mouse:: Mouse clicks on the mode line.
* Text-Only Mouse:: Using the mouse in text-only terminals.
@end menu
-@node Cut and Paste
-@section Cutting and Pasting on Graphical Displays
-
- This section describes commands for selecting a region, cutting, and
-pasting using the mouse.
-
-@menu
-* Mouse Commands:: Moving, cutting, and pasting, with the mouse.
-* Word and Line Mouse:: Mouse commands for selecting whole words or lines.
-* Cut/Paste Other App:: Transfering text between Emacs and other apps.
-* Secondary Selection:: Cutting without altering point and mark.
-* Clipboard:: Using the clipboard for selections.
-@end menu
-
@node Mouse Commands
-@subsection Mouse Commands for Editing
+@section Mouse Commands for Editing
@cindex mouse buttons (what they do)
@kindex Mouse-1
@kbd{Mouse-2} does not move point. Then it does not matter where you
click, or even which of the frame's windows you click on; the yank
occurs at the existing point. This variable also affects yanking the
-primary and secondary selections (@pxref{Cut/Paste Other App}).
+primary and secondary selections (@pxref{Primary Selection}).
@findex mouse-save-then-kill
Clicking with the right mouse button, @kbd{Mouse-3}, runs the
@xref{Using Region}.
@node Word and Line Mouse
-@subsection Mouse Commands for Words and Lines
+@section Mouse Commands for Words and Lines
These variants of @kbd{Mouse-1} select entire words or lines at a
time. Emacs activates the region around the selected text, which is
Select the text you drag across, in the form of whole lines.
@end table
-@node Cut/Paste Other App
-@subsection Cut and Paste with Other Window Applications
-
-@cindex X cutting and pasting
-@cindex X selection
-@cindex primary selection
-@cindex selection, primary
- When running Emacs under the X window system, you can easily
-transfer text between Emacs and other X applications using the
-@dfn{primary selection} (also called the @dfn{X selection}). This is
-@emph{not} the same thing as the @dfn{clipboard}, which is a separate
-facility used on desktop environments such as Gnome, and on operating
-systems such as Microsoft Windows (@pxref{Clipboard}).
-
- Under X, whenever you select some text in Emacs by dragging or
-clicking the mouse (@pxref{Mouse Commands}), it is also saved in the
-primary selection. You can then @dfn{paste} that text into any other
-X application, usually by clicking @kbd{Mouse-2} in that application.
-Unlike the Emacs kill ring (@pxref{Kill Ring}), the primary selection
-has no ``memory'': each time you save something in the primary
-selection, either in Emacs or in another X application, the previous
-contents of the primary selection are lost.
-
-@cindex MS-Windows, and primary selection
- MS-Windows provides no primary selection, but Emacs emulates it
-within a single Emacs session, by storing the selected text
-internally. Therefore, all the features and commands related to the
-primary selection work on Windows as they do on X, for cutting and
-pasting within the same session, but not across Emacs sessions or with
-other applications.
-
- Whenever you kill some text using a command such as @kbd{C-w}
-(@code{kill-region}), or copy it into the kill ring using a command
-such as @kbd{M-w} (@code{kill-ring-save}), that text is also saved in
-the primary selection. @xref{Killing}.
-
-@vindex select-active-regions
- If you set the region using the keyboard---for instance, by typing
-@kbd{C-@key{SPC}} and moving point away from the mark---the text in
-the region is not normally saved to the primary selection. However,
-if you change the variable @code{select-active-regions} to @code{t},
-the region is saved to the primary selection whenever you activate the
-mark. Each change to the region also updates the primary selection.
-
-@vindex yank-pop-change-selection
- If you change @code{yank-pop-change-selection} to @code{t}, rotating
-the kill ring with @kbd{M-y} (@code{yank-pop}) also saves the new yank
-to the primary selection (@pxref{Yanking}).
-
-@vindex save-interprogram-paste-before-kill
- If you change @code{save-interprogram-paste-before-kill} to
-@code{t}, each kill command first saves the existing selection onto
-the kill ring. This prevents you from losing the existing selection,
-at the risk of large memory consumption if other applications generate
-large selections.
-
- You can yank the primary selection into Emacs using the usual yank
-commands, such as @kbd{C-y} (@code{yank}) and @kbd{Mouse-2}
-(@code{mouse-yank-at-click}). These commands actually check the
-primary selection before referring to the kill ring; if no primary
-selection is available, the kill ring contents are used. To prevent
-yank commands from accessing the primary selection, set the variable
-@code{x-select-enable-primary} to @code{nil}.
-
- The standard coding system for the primary selection is
-@code{compound-text-with-extensions}. You may find that the pasted
-text is not what you expected. In such a case, you can specify
-another coding system for the selection by typing @kbd{C-x @key{RET}
-x} or @kbd{C-x @key{RET} X}. Alternatively, you can request a
-different data type by modifying the variable
-@code{x-select-request-type}. @xref{Communication Coding}.
-
-@node Secondary Selection
-@subsection Secondary Selection
-@cindex secondary selection
-
- In addition to the primary selection, the X Window System provides a
-second similar facility known as the @dfn{secondary selection}.
-Nowadays, few X applications make use of the secondary selection, but
-you can access it using the following Emacs commands:
-
-@table @kbd
-@findex mouse-set-secondary
-@kindex M-Drag-Mouse-1
-@item M-Drag-Mouse-1
-Set the secondary selection, with one end at the place where you press
-down the button, and the other end at the place where you release it
-(@code{mouse-set-secondary}). The selected text is highlighted, using
-the @code{secondary-selection} face, as you drag. The window scrolls
-automatically if you drag the mouse off the top or bottom of the
-window, just like @code{mouse-set-region} (@pxref{Mouse Commands}).
-
-This command does not alter the kill ring.
-
-@findex mouse-start-secondary
-@kindex M-Mouse-1
-@item M-Mouse-1
-Set one endpoint for the @dfn{secondary selection}
-(@code{mouse-start-secondary}).
-
-@findex mouse-secondary-save-then-kill
-@kindex M-Mouse-3
-@item M-Mouse-3
-Set the secondary selection, with one end at the position clicked and
-the other at the position specified with @kbd{M-Mouse-1}
-(@code{mouse-secondary-save-then-kill}). This also puts the selected
-text in the kill ring. A second @kbd{M-Mouse-3} at the same place
-kills the secondary selection just made.
-
-@findex mouse-yank-secondary
-@kindex M-Mouse-2
-@item M-Mouse-2
-Insert the secondary selection where you click, placing point at the
-end of the yanked text (@code{mouse-yank-secondary}).
-@end table
-
-Double or triple clicking of @kbd{M-Mouse-1} operates on words and
-lines, much like @kbd{Mouse-1}.
-
-If @code{mouse-yank-at-point} is non-@code{nil}, @kbd{M-Mouse-2} yanks
-at point. Then it does not matter precisely where you click, or even
-which of the frame's windows you click on. @xref{Mouse Commands}.
-
-@node Clipboard
-@subsection Using the Clipboard
-@cindex clipboard
-
- In desktop environments such as Gnome, and operating systems such as
-Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, you can transfer data (usually text)
-between different applications using the @dfn{clipboard}. The
-clipboard is distinct from the primary selection and secondary
-selection discussed earlier. You can access the clipboard through the
-@samp{Edit} menu of the menu bar (@pxref{Menu Bar}).
-
-@cindex cut
-@findex clipboard-kill-region
- The command @code{clipboard-kill-region}, which is bound to the
-@code{Cut} menu item, kills the region and saves it in the clipboard.
-
-@cindex copy
-@findex clipboard-kill-ring-save
- The command @code{clipboard-kill-ring-save}, which is bound to the
-@code{Copy} menu item, copies the region to the kill ring and saves it
-in the clipboard.
-
-@findex clipboard-yank
-@cindex paste
- The @code{Paste} menu item in the Edit menu yanks the contents of
-the clipboard at point (@code{clipboard-yank}).
-
-@vindex x-select-enable-clipboard
- You can customize the variable @code{x-select-enable-clipboard} to
-make the Emacs yank functions consult the clipboard before the primary
-selection, and to make the kill functions to store in the clipboard as
-well as the primary selection. Otherwise, these commands do not
-access the clipboard at all. Using the clipboard is the default on
-MS-Windows and Mac OS, but not on other systems.
-
@node Mouse References
@section Following References with the Mouse
@kindex Mouse-1 @r{(selection)}
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