From: Joel James Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:25:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zkwr68vd.fsf@chondestes.bio.unc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vd7g9ang.fsf@tux.homenetwork
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Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
> Joel James Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu> writes:
>
>> Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> This is probably very stupid but every time I step into it and it's very
>>> annoying.
>>>
>>> Supposing I want to copy something from Safari to emacs.
>>> So I
>>> - select and copy
>>> - select and kill the text I want to substitute
>>> - try to paste
>>>
>>> ARGH! Now the text I copied from safari is disappeared...
>>>
>>> A workardound is to delete first and then copy-paste.
>>> But is there a smarter way to solve this?
>>> Something like
>>> "if I copied something from the os keep it as first in the kill ring"?
>>
>> How about drag and drop? Does that work on OS X? Select the text, then
>> drag it to Emacs. That's usually what I do when I want to go from
>> Firefox to Emacs.
>
> You can't do that if emacs and firefox are on differents desktops.
> But you can use mouse2 (don't know for OSX).
> You can use that also:
Hi Thierry,
What do you mean I can't? I do that all the time. Do you mean desktops
as in virtual desktops, as in many X window managers? As I said, I do
it all the time.
Joel
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-11 16:51 Simple copy & paste problem Andrea Crotti
2010-08-11 17:51 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-11 18:10 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-08-11 19:05 ` Glauber Alex Dias Prado
2010-08-11 19:15 ` Joel James Adamson
2010-08-11 20:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-08-11 22:44 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-08-12 17:25 ` Joel James Adamson [this message]
2010-08-12 18:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1281557372.27891.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-05 1:59 ` David Combs
2010-08-12 5:42 ` Jonathan Groll
2010-08-13 2:35 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-08-25 13:47 ` Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1281553020.25709.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-05 1:48 ` David Combs
2010-09-29 21:20 ` David Combs
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1282744218.27059.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-05 2:02 ` David Combs
[not found] <mailman.4.1281546350.9082.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-08-11 17:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-09-05 1:44 ` David Combs
2010-09-05 1:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-11 18:11 ` notbob
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