primary vs. secondary selection

primary vs. secondary selection

[Gary Wessle]

Hi

I read somewhere a good article about the difference between C-c C-v
for windows and the mouse highlighting and pasting. also in connection
with emacs copy and yank, the need now is to read it again to attempt
to fix the following;

how can I copy a text from emacs to the browser with out using the
mouse?

thanks

Re: primary vs. secondary selection

[B. T. Raven]

"Gary Wessle" <phddas@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:87mz9tpy0h.fsf@yahoo.com...
>
> Hi
>
> I read somewhere a good article about the difference between C-c C-v
> for windows and the mouse highlighting and pasting. also in connection
> with emacs copy and yank, the need now is to read it again to attempt
> to fix the following;
>
> how can I copy a text from emacs to the browser with out using the
> mouse?
>
> thanks

I assume that you mean the text of the url (i.e. what goes in the address
box of the drop down list, but same strategy works for transferring text
from emacs to any other windows app:

[in emacs]
Move to first character of text to be copy-pasted into msw...
C-<space>
move cursor to end of emacs text
M-w
Alt-<tab> ;;to windows app of interest
;; to preserve this functionality, this key combo shouldn,t
;; be overriden in w32 emacs (assuming it's possible).

[in msw]
Alt-d  ;; to highlight text in address box
C-v (i.e. paste, somewhat like emacs' C-y, but less flexible).

See also:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public
_rnib003593.hcsp