Subject: Re: bug#12750: Highlighting text no longer works

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:08:44 +0800

Bruce Korb <[email-masked]> writes:

>>     (setq select-active-regions         nil)
>>     (setq mouse-drag-copy-region        't)
>>     (setq x-select-enable-primary       't)
>>     (setq x-select-enable-clipboard     nil)
>>     (global-set-key [mouse-2]          'mouse-yank-at-click)
>
> I do need explicit instructions.  This didn't work.  I want to
> highlight and paste and highlight and yank.  Both and.  This isn't
> working.

You have to be more specific than that.  With a .emacs file, your
previous recipe

> 1. left click the end of some text
> 2. right click the start of some text
> 3. alt-shift-5 ctl-y (query replace followed by paste)

does indeed yank the text into the minibuffer.