m1tag00@fed.FRB.GOV (Tim A. Grunwald) (07/28/88)
At my work we use Gnu Emacs running on Sun workstations (3/50's and 3/60's). Emacstool provides an excellent mouse interface to Gnu Emacs. The problem is the normal "put" and "get" commands used to cut and paste between windows, does not work between an emacstool window and any other Sun windows (suntools or cmdtools). Emacstool's sun-get-selection and sun-select-region commands work as described, but are not able to access the sunwindow shelf. I will try and implement cutting and pasting between an emacstool window and another Sun window myself. The suntools command get_selection, retrieves the current sunwindow selection and seems like a good place to get started. But before I waste any time, has anyone found a way to cut and paste between an emacstool window and another Sun window? I think this would add a great deal of functionality to the suntools environment. Post answers or mail directly to me -- uunet!fed!m1tag00 Thanx. Tim Grunwald (202) 452-2403 uunet!fed!m1tag00
mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) (07/29/88)
From article <216@fed.FRB.GOV>, by m1tag00@fed.FRB.GOV (Tim A. Grunwald): > the normal "put" and "get" commands used > to cut and paste between windows, does not work between an emacstool > window and any other Sun windows (suntools or cmdtools). [...] > has anyone found a way to cut and > paste between an emacstool window and another Sun window? I think this > would add a great deal of functionality to the suntools environment. I agree, it is a pain that this important feature was left out of the emacstool interface. But Stuff does work. To move text to or from a Shelltool (or any text window with a "Stuff" option in its menu): Select the text you want to paste using the left and/or middle mouse buttons. When it's highlighted, move to the window you want to paste into and select "Stuff" from it's menu. To move text to or from a window without a "Stuff" option: Use Put&Get [or Stuff] to get it to a Shelltool (or any other window that will support BOTH Stuff and Put&Get) and once the text is there, use Stuff [or Put&Get] to it to the destination window. -- unsigned *Wayne_Mesard(); MESARD@BBN.COM BBN, Cambridge, MA [B]oth [Democratic] candidates are fluent in Spanish; it remains to be seen if one of the Republican candidates will be fluent in English. -George Will