From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Revilak Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: pasting text from other program in emacs Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:30:37 -0500 Message-ID: <20110101153037.GA6622@srevilak.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293895880 21927 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2011 15:31:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 15:31:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 01 16:31:16 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ3QJ-0005ew-Pv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:31:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60667 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ3QJ-0002G8-40 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:31:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59476 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ3Pw-0002G1-O0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:30:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ3Pv-0003dA-O7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:30:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.53]:54690) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ3Pv-0003cS-GL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:30:51 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 3087 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2011 15:30:47 -0000 Original-Received: from pool-108-7-59-215.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO srevilak.net) (srevilak@[108.7.59.215]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 1 Jan 2011 15:30:47 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:78021 Archived-At: --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline >From: Javier >Does anybody know how to do to paste text from external programs into an >emacs window? I am using emacs 23.2.1 and debian Squezze. Copy the external program's text to your window manager's clipboard; then, in an emacs buffer, press C-y to paste the clipboard contents into the buffer. You may also want to have a look at M-x describe-variable x-select-enable-clipboard RET > Is this a new "feature" of emacs 23? Clipboard access is not a new feature of emacs 23. Steve --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk0fSJ0ACgkQX7YJI4BuyDQoeACgv1I42O0mOdfXvaGLDuyqn4Jd 3aoAn2dbFqjDiJHZK1jbeprYBxxwk+AG =rGf0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--