Re: macintosh OSX emacs: copy/paste

[Hugo Wolf <hwolf@deutsches.lieder.net>]

In <m2adhq1qmt.fsf@resume.itd.nrl.navy.mil> Greg Trafton  wrote:
> I copy it to the
> clipboard, but apple-v / paste does not work. 

The command (apple) key is treated by emacs either as alt or as meta, 
depending on your configuration.  In general it doesn't work like a 
command key in the MacOS sense (except for cmd-H).  

For paste into emacs use mouse-middle or emacs' Edit menu.


> (the reverse is true
> also: I can't copy stuff from emacs into a separate document or
> application) 

Any text you mark in emacs is effectively "copied".  So just mark it in 
emacs and hit cmd-V in other OSX apps. 



> instead, the apple key seems to be a control key

By default it's meta, and option is alt.  You can swap these via 

 (setq mac-command-key-is-meta nil)



> emacs is essentially not using the macintosh copy/paste properly.

It's doing what window'd emacs has always done.



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

You should get a 2-button+wheel mouse anyway (the wheel can be clicked 
for mouse-middle) .  They're really cheap and they're useful not only in 
carbon emacs but also in Aqua in general (Cocoa apps in particular) and 
in X11. 



> A second thing I would like to know how to do is in Oort Gnus v0.12,
> drag and drop an attachment into a mac folder. 

There isn't much drag&drop support in this version of emacs.  You can 
drag files from the Finder into emacs and it will open a buffer for them, 
but afaik that's about it. I don't know about gnus specifically, since I 
never use it (too slow).