Emacs and Mr. Clipboard

I finally figured out how to get Emacs to use the X Clipboard. In the Customize | Editing | Killing page, at the bottom there is a toggle for "X Select Enable Clipboard". This defaults to nil, so toggle it to t in order to have text that you Copy go into the X clipboard as well. If you want to do this by hand:


(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)


should go into your .emacs file. One small victory, as I move towards a happy full-time existence in BSD land. Now to fix a few of my other problems:

Things I miss from Windows:

• Google Toolbar w/spellchecking


• Comcast Rhapsody


• My title bar shortcut menu PowerPro)


• No multimedia working yet. No WMV/AVI. No YouTube/Google Video


• Flash. While in general I hate flash, and I never could get it to work for my Firefox on Windows, some sites require it. I used to just use the "View Site in IE" or Opera shortcut on Windows. It is one reason I've been trying to get them to work using some kind of Windows tool.