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ld50
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 Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:35 pm Post subject: How to paste in emacs? |
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I'm running emacs in aterm (emacs -nw), and i enabled my mouse wheel with M-x xterm-mouse-mode so i can scroll up and down.
The problem is when i try to paste something using the middle button, it says "kill ring is empty" and it doesnt paste.
If i don't use xterm-mouse-fine there's no problem. |
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rsharman
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Joined: 16 Jan 2005
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:51 pm Post subject: Re: How to paste in emacs? |
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| ld50 wrote: | I'm running emacs in aterm (emacs -nw), and i enabled my mouse wheel with M-x xterm-mouse-mode so i can scroll up and down.
The problem is when i try to paste something using the middle button, it says "kill ring is empty" and it doesnt paste.
If i don't use xterm-mouse-fine there's no problem. |
I just emerge'd aterm to try it and it worked fine for me.
If you get help for key (or run describe-key) on the middle button does it say
| Code: | | <mouse-2> at that spot runs the command mouse-yank-at-click |
If so, let's see what the kill-ring has. The error message you gave appears to be given
when the killl-ringis empty.
Try evaluating (e.g. entering in the *scratch* buffer and pressing control-J after the')' ):
Now cut (yank) some text and then re-evaluate (length kill-ring). Even if the kill ring was
empty before it should not be now. You should also be able to yank it with C-y.
If so, are you still getting the error with the middle button?
If you are, try setting debug-on-error to t then when you click the middle button you should see a traceback; this should give a clue as to what's going on.
(Press q in the *Backtrace* buffer to get out of it, and set debug-on-error to nil to not get the backtraces again.)
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