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From: m1tag00@fed.frb.gov (Tim A. Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: GNU emacs with suntools
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Date: 21 Dec 88 14:54:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: gsh7w@astsun1.acc.virginia.edu (Greg Hennessy)

In article <942@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>, gsh7w@astsun1 (Greg Hennessy) writes:
>
>I am trying to use a `cut and paste' from one window to an GNU emacs
>running under emacstool. I can so what I want when cutting from a
>shelltool, but not from a command tool. The ``stuff selection'' [I
>think] seems to be mentioned in the man of shelltool for backwards
>compatibility. Can any kind soul help me, point out the place in the
>manual where it is probably spelled out?
>
>Sincerely;
>-Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia
> USPS Mail:     Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA

	Unfortunately, GNU Emacs does not support cut and paste between a
Sun commandtool window and emacstool.  Someone will have to write that in a 
future release (requires selection-service programming).

	I have written an easy kludge to cut from a commandtool window into
emacstool.

	Assign the following emacs lisp function to a function key (I use
shift-L8 -- shift-GET), then just highlight what you want to paste into
emacs and press the function key.

(defun get-sunview-selection ()
  "Get text highlighted in a sunview window
and stuff at point"
  (interactive)
  (call-process "get_selection" nil t)
  )


	Tim Grunwald
	Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC, 20551
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