From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to speed up cutting & pasting from/to emacs? Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:02:33 -0700 Message-ID: <20150712174938.13661.2F4518D1@ahiker.mooo.com> References: <87zj31605c.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <87wpy58fkd.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436724170 29694 80.91.229.3 (12 Jul 2015 18:02:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 18:02:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 20:02:49 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZELaS-0008I8-AG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 20:02:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZELaR-0000wP-CH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:02:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZELaG-0000wJ-GN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZELaF-0001xj-FA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:02:36 -0400 Original-Received: from disorder-1-pt.tunnel.tserv3.fmt2.ipv6.he.net ([2001:470:1f04:51a::2]:39422 helo=acedia.primate.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZELaF-0001xd-6M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:02:35 -0400 Original-Received: from acedia.primate.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by acedia.primate.net (8.14.9/8.14.9/Debian-2) with ESMTP id t6CI2Xl2031170 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:02:33 -0700 Original-Received: (from itz@localhost) by acedia.primate.net (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t6CI2XE3031163 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:02:33 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: acedia.primate.net: itz set sender to itz@buug.org using -f Original-Received: from itz by ahiker.mooo.com with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZELaD-0003ZG-4t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:02:33 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wpy58fkd.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:470:1f04:51a::2 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105647 Archived-At: 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). -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.