visual selection and X primary behavior

Sun Jul 27 02:50:04 CEST 2014

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 06:31:06PM -0400, Gordon Gustafson wrote:
> Did you mean this (without the comma)?
> 
>     (define-key evil-normal-state-map "y" "\"+y")
> 

Well, I use the comma as my "leader" key. I don't want to use just "y"
itself because that would overwrite the default "y" command.

> Also, do you get the same error when you manually type the "+y (not
> using the macro)? What  key sequence causes the failure?

If I don't use the macro and just type

    "+y

into a `emacs -nw` session, I get the error message

    X selection unavailable for this frame

.

-L

> 
> On 7/26/14, Linus Arver <linusarver at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > In regular Emacs (with Evil mode turned on, of course), I can (1) do
> > visual selection of a region, and it will automatically copy that
> > selection into the X primary selection buffer. This way, I can simply do
> > SHIFT+INSERT in another X program (e.g., Firefox) and I will paste the
> > selection that way. Conversely, I can (2) SHIFT+INSERT into Emacs/Evil
> > (in Insert mode), and it will paste whatever is in the X primary buffer.
> >
> > However, behavior (1) does not work in terminal-mode Emacs (`emacs
> > -nw`), although behavior (2) works as expected. I have tried to work
> > around this by using my `"+y` macro which is enabled with
> >
> >     (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",y" "\"+y")
> >
> > in my .emacs, but it fails with the message
> >
> >     After 0 kbd macro iterations: X selection unavailable for this frame
> >
> > . Is this a bug in Evil or is it something in Emacs itself?
> >
> > -L
> >
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