Re: macintosh OSX emacs: copy/paste

[Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>]

>>>>> Greg Trafton <trafton@itd.nrl.navy.mil> (GT) writes:

GT> Hi, All.  I'm using emacs on a macintosh running OS 10.2.3.  one
GT> problem I have is that when I want to copy something from a mac
GT> application (like mozilla or word) into emacs, I copy it to the
GT> clipboard, but apple-v / paste does not work.  (the reverse is true
GT> also: I can't copy stuff from emacs into a separate document or
GT> application) instead, the apple key seems to be a control key, so
GT> emacs is essentially not using the macintosh copy/paste properly.

GT> when I was running (x)emacs on a linux box, I had a 3 button mouse
GT> and could copy/paste with selection/second mouse key.  If this is the
GT> preferred method of dealing with this problem i can get a 3 button
GT> mouse ;-)

GT> A second thing I would like to know how to do is in Oort Gnus v0.12,
GT> drag and drop an attachment into a mac folder.  I'll post in the gnus
GT> newsgroup a bit later about this if no one in this group knows how to
GT> do this.

GT> here is the emacs-version info:
GT> GNU Emacs 21.3.50.4 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.3) of 2002-12-21 on
GT> cabledoc126.frazmtn.com

IS this emacs running in a Terminal window or The GUI (Carbon) Emacs?
I don't have any problems with the latter, only with the standard
keybinding Copy is M-w and Paste is C-y. The 3 button mouse also works,
but you may have to put some incantations in your .emacs file.
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