Re: How to speed up cutting & pasting from/to emacs?

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>]

On 2015-07-12 19:13 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> What do you mean "speed up", exactly? Do you use the GUI Emacs in X?
> And in another window, you have another program with text? Again, the
> best thing is if what that program does can be done in Emacs, which is
> very likely, and Emacs probably does it better as well. If this can't
> be done for whatever reason, you need a window manager in X with a
> shortcut to iterate windows. I use Openbox with which it is possible
> to select window with M-TAB (in Emacs' notation). So in the other
> program you cut the text. Then hit M-TAB to go to Emacs. Then hit
> whatever key you have assigned to paste it, if it isn't integrated
> with the kill ring already, in what case C-y is fine (it doesn't
> matter in terms of speed if the "paste from clipboard" shortcut is as
> short and close as C-y).

There are dragons hiding there.  See

https://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2002/08/msg00008.html

which, AFAIK, is still present in the Emacs I use (23.4).

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