From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: copy/paste to/from emacs Date: 10 Aug 2005 18:15:40 +1000 Message-ID: <878xzab42b.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: <42dff22a$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au> <3kaajgFtbtcvU1@individual.net> Reply-To: timx@spamto.devnul.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123664683 14638 80.91.229.2 (10 Aug 2005 09:04:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:04:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 10 11:04:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2mUp-0003Cg-OZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:03:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2mXw-00056D-2i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 05:06:48 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 66 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp2-207.lns1.syd7.internode.on.net Original-X-Trace: duster.adelaide.on.net 1123661741 59.167.2.207 (10 Aug 2005 17:45:41 +0950) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!news.xtra.co.nz!news-south.connect.com.au!duster.adelaide.on.net!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133090 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:28610 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28610 dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > In article <3kaajgFtbtcvU1@individual.net>, > Marc Tfardy wrote: > >Baloff wrote: > >> Hello > >> ok, the title says it all, I cann't copy from emacs and paste into say > >> Mozilla or any other program and this is true from other programs to > >> emacs as well. what is the fix? > > > >What OS? win? linux? > >I suppose, you use M-w to copy and C-y to paste in Emacs. > >Under linux it is sufficient for copy to mark the text with mouse. > > > >Marc > > Not how it works in Solaris' "CDE": > > To take something from an emacs buffer to another CDE "window" > (a "real" window, not what emacs calls "window"), do: > > . regionize the stuff. > > . do NOT do C-w; rather, press the "copy" button on the > keyboard (well, mine is a Sun keyboard, with two columns > of special keys, eg go-to-next-window ("front"), copy, > paste, etc, these 2 columns being on the left edge > of the keyboard (10 keys in all). > > . Switch windows into the window the other app is > running in and wants-input, and hit the "paste" key. > > Reverse direction, eg from something being shown in a dtterm > and putting it into an emacs buffer, at point: > > . Mouse-blacken that area in the, say, dtterm. > > . Hit Copy-button. > > . Flip into the window emacs owns. > > . *Usually*, C-y works. If not, hit the paste-button. > > > What if anything this scheme for Sun Solaris implies for > Linux, I don't know. > Very little I expect unless you are using a Sun keyboard with Linux! Generally under X windows, you mark the text (either with the mouse or usiing the mark region commands - its useful to enable transient-mark-mode if you use the mouse), switch to the other application you want to paste into and hit the middle mouse button. Note that the 'windows style' Ctl-v usually doesn't work consistently - there is some trickery you can do using the xclipboard, but I've found it too much of a hassle to bother with and there are still some apps which don't recognize the xclipboard. Tim -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!