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In article <15069@ulysses.att.com>, rxga@ulysses.att.com (Rick Greer) writes:
>I'd like to use the mouse on my terminal to sweep out portions 
>of an EMACS window for pasting into some other window.

If your terminal is an X terminal, try:

(define-key mouse-map x-button-left 'x-mouse-set-point)
(define-key mouse-map x-button-left-up 'x-cut-text)

Then the cut is a true Emacs "copy region to cut buffer" as well as
an Emacs copy-region-as-kill.  So you can use the same maneuver to
copy text for use within Emacs as well as outside of Emacs.

This works differently than the default X Emacs mouse binding.  You
can still move point with the left button, but to copy text you click
at one end and drag to the other, rather than click with the right
button.  I think it's more intuitive.

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