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From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pasting texts into terminal emacs buffer
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:38:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgbbj7pi.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86lfh3rx8k.fsf@x201.butler.org

>>>>> Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca> writes:

    > Benjamín Buccianti <benjamin@buccianti.dev> writes:
    >> ******************************************************** Caution:
    >> This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba.
    >> ********************************************************
    >> 
    >> kevin shell <kshell@gmx.com> writes:
    >> 
    >>> Hello emacs users.  I use gnome-terminal to start emacs with
    >>> "emacs -nw", when I try to paste texts into emacs buffer, the
    >>> echo area outputs "Beginning of buffer", nothing pasting into
    >>> emacs.  How can I paste texts into emacs?
    >> 
    >> Are you pressing Ctrl-v ?
    >> 
    >> I think the correct keybinding would be Ctrl-y (from yank).
    >> 
    >> Hope it helps!

    > The OP is using emacs inside gnome-terminal. I would recommend
    > using emacs to run your shell sessions in, and dispense with
    > gnome-terminal.

    > M-x shell

    > or

    > M-x term

There has to be something amiss in the OP's setup. I use emacs in a
terminal (xterm) all the time and experience no "copy/paste" issues. One
thing I had to do though was to fix the 'Alt' key by putting
`XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true' in my ~/.Xdefaults

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-21 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-20  5:57 Pasting texts into terminal emacs buffer kevin shell
2020-09-20  6:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 12:00   ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-20 12:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 13:26       ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-20 13:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 14:32           ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-20 14:37             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 14:56               ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-20 15:49                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-22 10:00                   ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-20 18:14             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-20 16:38 ` Benjamín Buccianti
2020-09-21 15:00   ` Leo Butler
2020-09-21 18:38     ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2020-09-21 23:26       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-22  6:21         ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-22  6:55           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-24 15:26 ` Jean Louis

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