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Cut and paste problems on Linux on a text virtual console no longer works
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Hello, Michael and Stefan.
In article <mailman.2142.1597447084.2739.bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> you wrote:
> [Please use "Reply to all" so the discussion is in the bug tracker.]
> Hi Michael,
> Thanks for replying back with details. I'm hoping that the information
> you have provided will help someone who knows more about this stuff
> investigate this.
> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas
> "Dr. Michael L. Dowling" <Mike.Dowling <at> t-online.de> writes:
>> Hello Stefan!
>> Thanks for replying. This is an old bug report but is nevertheless
>> still valid.
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 09:14:36AM -0700, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>>> "Dr. Michael L. Dowling" <Mike.Dowling <at> t-online.de> writes:
>>> > The Report:
>>> > If I use X-windows, there is no problem with cutting and pasting from
>>> > outside an emacs buffer into an emacs buffer and vice versa. But this
>>> > no longer works when in a text console. When on a Linux virtual
>>> > console, pasting into an emacs buffer results in the message:
>>> > "No selection available"
>> This continues to be the case to this day.
Forgive me for not answering each point individually.
The problem with GPM and Emacs had been annoying me so much that I got
into the GPM source code in early 2016 to try and fix it. The conclusion
I came to then was that the GPM mouse works in two exclusive incompatible
ways: (i) it works on the virtual terminal; (ii) it works under the
control of an application, such as Emacs. These two modes don't interact
with eachother.
Unfortunately, I didn't note down any of the precise details in GPM, but
the _only_ way to transfer text into or out of Emacs with GPM is first to
do M-x gpm-mouse-mode (to disable "application" mode), followed by normal
GPM operations on the screen. I actually have gpm-mouse-mode disabled by
default, since I don't need to use mouse facilities in Emacs.
I did make a note about this in the Emacs manual on the page "Text-Only
Mouse".
There are several annoyances with this way of working - if you've got
side-by-side windows, you've really got to get rid of all but the
pertinent window before being able to mark text with the mouse; when you
yank text in with the middle button, linefeeds misbehave, giving
indentation where none is wanted. For all that, having GPM is better
than not having it.
[ .... ]
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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