From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Groll Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: pasting text from other program in emacs Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:13:30 +0200 Message-ID: <878vz4crh1.wl%lists@groll.co.za> References: <20110101153037.GA6622@srevilak.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293912838 22653 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2011 20:13:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 20:13:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 01 21:13:53 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 1PZ7pp-0008Gm-80 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:13:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ7po-0007h5-9N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:13:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59412 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ7pT-0007gp-6j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:13:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ7pS-0006RJ-2T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:13:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.groll.co.za ([166.84.7.40]:44890) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ7pR-0006R6-UH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:13:30 -0500 Original-Received: from phoenix.groll.co.za (196-210-152-44.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.152.44]) (Authenticated sender: lists) by mail.groll.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A530B5FF21 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 22:13:27 +0200 (SAST) In-Reply-To: <20110101153037.GA6622@srevilak.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/23.1 Mule/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:78028 Archived-At: On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:30:37 -0500, Steve Revilak wrote: > [1 ] > >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 might also want to try the IBM CUA keybinding of Shift-Insert to perform a 'paste/yank'. Cheers, Jonathan -- jjg: Jonathan J. Groll : groll co za has_one { :blog => "http://bloggroll.com" }