From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Enberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs vs vs.net Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:19:58 +0100 Organization: Le Petomane Appreciation Society Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87brs02sv5.fsf@enberg.org> References: <3f9f2256$1@news.microsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067428473 19623 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 11:54:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 12:54:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEouF-00075q-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:54:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEoti-0004JX-79 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:53:58 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!h114n2fls32o1112.telia.COM!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h114n2fls32o1112.telia.com (213.65.65.114) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1067426411 37323220 213.65.65.114 (16 [125297]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xAMnRe502JnQAleHOh/YP0Zr/w8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117673 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13608 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: "William Shieh" >> from what i could see is that it takes more key to do a simple copy >> and paste than notepad. > > How so? Emacs supports the same paradigm for copy/paste as any other > GUI program: mark the text to be copied with the mouse, then click the > mouse's right button at the destination. Doesn't this work for you? I think most windows programs don't have this feature. It's one of the things that annoys me the most every time I end up in front of a windows computer anyway. -- Vaya Con Satan