emacs on Mac OS X problem

emacs on Mac OS X problem

[Avi Purkayastha]

I downloaded and installed GNU emacs v21.3.50 binary(not the terminal 
emacs that comes with OS X) and have been succesful except for one MAJOR 
problem. I can copy-and-paste out of an emacs window into a terminal or 
file, but not the other way around. So the cmd-c and cmd-v commands 
yield nothing into an emacs window. Any solutions?

many thanks
avi

Re: emacs on Mac OS X problem

[Kai Großjohann]

Avi Purkayastha <avijit@tacc.utexas.edu> writes:

> I downloaded and installed GNU emacs v21.3.50 binary(not the terminal
> emacs that comes with OS X) and have been succesful except for one
> MAJOR problem. I can copy-and-paste out of an emacs window into a
> terminal or file, but not the other way around. So the cmd-c and cmd-v
> commands yield nothing into an emacs window. Any solutions?

In Emacs, the `paste' command is C-y.

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Re: emacs on Mac OS X problem

[Avi Purkayastha]

Kai Großjohann wrote:
> Avi Purkayastha <avijit@tacc.utexas.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>I downloaded and installed GNU emacs v21.3.50 binary(not the terminal
>>emacs that comes with OS X) and have been succesful except for one
>>MAJOR problem. I can copy-and-paste out of an emacs window into a
>>terminal or file, but not the other way around. So the cmd-c and cmd-v
>>commands yield nothing into an emacs window. Any solutions?
> 
> 
> In Emacs, the `paste' command is C-y.
> 
yes, but the paste command is empty or un-highlighted. In other words 
when I copy or cmd-c, it does seem to be `loaded' in any buffer.

I installed this version by downloading the 
EmacsInstaller-02-11-26.dmg.gz and basically untarring and installing 
the binary. If you have this version on your Mac OS X, it would be 
helpful to know how you installed?

thanks
	-- avi

Re: emacs on Mac OS X problem

[Rodney Sparapani]

Avi:

There are a few Mac "localizations" that I keep in .emacs:
;Mac keys
(setq mac-command-key-is-meta nil)
(global-set-key (quote [f1]) 'help-command)
(global-set-key [?\A-v] 'yank)           ; paste
(global-set-key [?\A-x] 'kill-region)    ; cut
(global-set-key [?\A-c] 'kill-ring-save) ; copy

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Re: emacs on Mac OS X problem

[Thomas Yan]

Avi Purkayastha <avijit@tacc.utexas.edu> writes:

> I downloaded and installed GNU emacs v21.3.50 binary(not the terminal
> emacs that comes with OS X) and have been succesful except for one
> MAJOR problem. I can copy-and-paste out of an emacs window into a
> terminal or file, but not the other way around. So the cmd-c and cmd-v
> commands yield nothing into an emacs window. Any solutions?

I can copy out of Terminal or TextEdit and then paste into an xterm
under X Windows.  So I cat to a file ~/blah, paste into that, and then
insert that file into an emacs buffer.  (Or, if it is only one line
long, I paste it into an xterm, cut something in emacs, copy from the
xterm, and paste into emacs.  I'm not sure why I have to cut something
first in emacs.)

Annoying, but it works.

Re: emacs on Mac OS X problem

[Piet van Oostrum]

> Avi Purkayastha <avijit@tacc.utexas.edu> writes:
> I downloaded and installed GNU emacs v21.3.50 binary(not the terminal
> emacs that comes with OS X) and have been succesful except for one
> MAJOR problem. I can copy-and-paste out of an emacs window into a
> terminal or file, but not the other way around. So the cmd-c and cmd-v
> commands yield nothing into an emacs window. Any solutions?

In emacs you paste with C-y (control-Y). I have no problem pasting into
emacs from Terminal or other applications.
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