it s all here in these NUMBER lines otherwise known as the i ll try my damnest to paste something procedure return the current selection from any window or cut buffer NUMBER proc text_selection if catch selection get sel if catch selection get selection clipboard sel if catch cutbuffer get NUMBER sel return return sel this is in textselection tcl and is what exmh uses to find text to paste it is that last cutbuffer get that is wacky because exmh sticks its own deletions into that little know stash and is probably the only application on the planet that still looks there we should probably just disable that try this variant proc text_selection if catch selection get sel if catch selection get selection clipboard sel return return sel everything funnels through here so you just need to hack this one spot rick baartman said i ve never understood the mouse buffer operation with exmh either here s th e behaviour i have i have exmh and xemacs windows up and a terminal window i also have gnomeNUMBER NUMBER running and enlightenment as wm i select text in the ex mh window and while it is highlighted i can paste into anything else if i sel ect it and then click so the highlighting is off then what i paste is not the recently selected text in exmh but an old selection if i select in xemacs and leave it highlighted i can paste it into exmh sedit window but if it is no longer highlighted what i paste is an old selection i can live with this behaviour except for one additional thing if nothing is highlighted then w hat i paste into exmh is different from what i paste into other windows to be m ore specific here s what gets pasted if nothing is highlighted application what gets pasted xemacs whatever was last selected unless it was last selected in exmh xterm same as xemacs abiword nothing nedit nothing sedit whatever was last highlighted in sedit and overwritten the last needs some amplification if i highlight something in sedit then obviously that s what gets pasted if the highlighting is off then what get s pasted is not what was last highlighted in sedit but what was last highligh ted and typed over i have type kills sel on it seems that exmh and sedit are the oddballs here very often when i try to paste something in sedit i end up muttering wtf rick _______________________________________________ exmh users mailing list exmh users URL URL brent welch software architect panasas inc pioneering the world s most scalable and agile storage network URL welch URL _______________________________________________ exmh users mailing list exmh users URL URL 