emacs problem

[Kam Leo]

On 3/20/07, François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
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> Bonjour,
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> I have a problem with Emacs and as I ask the question on usenet emacs
> lists and as other people using other linux distro do not have this
> problem, I ask my question here:
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> 1- Clipboard: it seems that there is a specific clipboard for Emacs
> under Fedora/Gnome; I am unable to copy something from any other
> application and paste it in emacs. It is always the last thing
> copied/cut *in* emacs which is pasted in emacs whatever you could have
> selected and copied in other windows (say: terminal, acroread...)
>
> 2- The dead key circumflex/trema of my french keyboard is not working in
> Emacs: the sequence ^a doesn't give â but a (same with ^e,^i,...).
>
> Thanks for any suggestion.
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> François Patte
> UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> Université René Descartes
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

Have you tried xemacs?