From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John A Pershing Jr Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Copying text from emacs to another application using M-w Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:39:26 -0400 Organization: none Message-ID: <82fxah5rtd.fsf@alum.mit.edu> References: <87iqfe8dkw.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253569919 15685 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2009 21:51:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:51:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 21 23:51:53 2009 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 4.50) id 1MpqnY-0002Dg-8z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:51:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53278 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MpqnX-0000Mh-TE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:51:51 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.51.MISMATCH!tmp-post01.iad!news.highwinds-media.com!news.cv.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MxTLj/JLqGIJH3AvssEgyAtrRcU= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.88.209.219 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cv.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173209 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:48:06 -0400 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:68354 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > I'd like to do this: > > 1. Mouse or keyboard (or C-a) select a region or `all' (say in firefox) > 2. Middle mouse or C-y to paste that region into emacs. done That's exactly how it's supposed to work "out of the box", although I can't verify the use of mouse button #2, as I've always and only used C-y (I learned Emacs back before mice had been invented). However, the C-y has to be one of the first things that you do after bringing the focus back to Emacs. Perhaps you have something in your .emacs file that is interfering with this default behavior? -jp