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When I try to copy text from Emacs buffer with Esc-w and try to to paste it to external console, it fails. Why? Any ideas?

tripleee
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blackmath
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    Are you on Windows, OSX, Linux, or some other platform? Please edit the question to add this information and suitable tags. – tripleee Jan 13 '13 at 13:45
  • @blackmath your persistent terse easily google-able questions are getting really annoying. See this question with huge numbers of upvotes: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/64360/how-to-copy-text-from-emacs-to-another-application-on-linux – event_jr Jan 13 '13 at 16:48

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Try (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)

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