From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: primary vs. secondary selection Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:32:01 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: <3be9f$44eefb2b$49fa5b9$17537@DIALUPUSA.NET> References: <87mz9tpy0h.fsf@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156513251 322 80.91.229.2 (25 Aug 2006 13:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 25 15:40:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGbvC-0004FH-C7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGbvB-0005ie-QI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!DIALUPUSA.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: 3be9f44eefb2ba13a001c17537 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141308 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36930 Archived-At: "Gary Wessle" 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- move cursor to end of emacs text M-w Alt- ;;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