Cut and paste in Emacs

[Matthias Buelow]

Kris Maglione wrote:
> I, personally, still don't completely understand the entire unix/X cut 
> buffer system. First, there is more than one cut buffer, but I doubt 
> that that's your problem. Second, there is select-to-copy and 
> select+right click.../ctrl+c/... to copy. These use two different 

X11 cut&paste is a mess.. the OP might try to use xclipboard as an 
intermediate target.  It often works, when two programs use different 
mechanisms for selections.

mkb.