Re: Copy Paste in no-x11 mode (emacs -nw)

[Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 06:06:40PM +0300, Simeon Nifos wrote:
>Dear list,
>I like using emacs in nox11 mode. The Eterm terminal provides a great
>font by default I really enjoy. It is smaller and I can work on more
>source code than I do with the misc-fixed font of Xterm. So I usually
>run emacs  with -nw. Unfortunately there is no way to copy paste
>something from one emacs window to a terminal or from a terminal to
>the emacs window I am editing. This is a real headache, since one of
>the most foundamental stuff an editor is supposed to do, is to support
>copy and paste of text from whatsoever source to the window where
>editing takes place.

At least under KDE, Shift-Insert pastes the content of the clipboard;
to copy though I have to use the mouse to highlight (which
automatically inserts it onto the Unix-style clipboard for me). 

Put in those terms, the problem is then how to get M-w to also place
the item into the system clipboard (for -nw), I would much rather do
that than to have to reach for the mouse.

Cheers,
Jonathan.

P.S. Of course, one *could* run a gnu-screen session which has got
it's own copy-paste features that are completely keyboard
controllable, but that is not what you were asking for.