From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Grab and yank Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:07:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264445035 2969 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2010 18:43:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:43:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 19:43:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NZTud-0000aj-5G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:43:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40558 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZTue-0008AI-Cp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:43:48 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe19.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/uUkzaJfE7hq9zAWcpU/kb5ssoQ= Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:07:52 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176381 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:71448 Archived-At: >> I notice that I often do this operation: >> I am in one buffer and I need to fetch something from another buffer. >> So I visit the other one, select what I need, go back and yank. >> Now something like that would be nice instead: >> - visit the buffer in view mode >> - when quitting automatically put it in kill-ring and yank it to the >>  point of the original buffer >> >> This would save quite a lot of time, what do you thik? >> I started something like that If you want to do it "the GUI way", I remember an elisp package that provided "single click copy&paste": just press the mouse-button at start, drag to end, and when you release the mouse button, the selected text is copied&yanked at point. Can't remember the package's name, tho. Stefan