Re: [h-e-w] Yank primary selection

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 22:31:31 +0000
> From: Uday S Reddy <address@hidden>
> Cc: Uday S Reddy <address@hidden>,
>     address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
> > There's no primary selection on Windows.  Emacs tries to emulate it,
> > but only within the same Emacs session.  It cannot do anything across
> > Emacs sessions, or between Emacs and other applications.  For that,
> > you only have the clipboard.
> 
> Ok, that is fine.  So, what can I use for stuffing text, so that I can
> paste them in other applications?

In which version of Emacs?

In Emacs 23, either C-w/M-w or dragging a mouse across the text will
put it into the Windows clipboard, and you can then paste it into
another application (C-y or mouse-2 if that other application is
Emacs).

In Emacs 24, only keyboard keys, like C-w/M-w copy text into the
clipboard, and only C-y paste it from the clipboard.