From: Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com>
Subject: Re: copy/paste to/from emacs
Date: 10 Aug 2005 18:15:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xzab42b.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ddb4s4$pg$1@reader2.panix.com
dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:
> In article <3kaajgFtbtcvU1@individual.net>,
> Marc Tfardy <m-t-o___CUT_IT___@web.de> wrote:
> >Baloff wrote:
> >> Hello
> >> ok, the title says it all, I cann't copy from emacs and paste into say
> >> Mozilla or any other program and this is true from other programs to
> >> emacs as well. what is the fix?
> >
> >What OS? win? linux?
> >I suppose, you use M-w to copy and C-y to paste in Emacs.
> >Under linux it is sufficient for copy to mark the text with mouse.
> >
> >Marc
>
> Not how it works in Solaris' "CDE":
>
> To take something from an emacs buffer to another CDE "window"
> (a "real" window, not what emacs calls "window"), do:
>
> . regionize the stuff.
>
> . do NOT do C-w; rather, press the "copy" button on the
> keyboard (well, mine is a Sun keyboard, with two columns
> of special keys, eg go-to-next-window ("front"), copy,
> paste, etc, these 2 columns being on the left edge
> of the keyboard (10 keys in all).
>
> . Switch windows into the window the other app is
> running in and wants-input, and hit the "paste" key.
>
> Reverse direction, eg from something being shown in a dtterm
> and putting it into an emacs buffer, at point:
>
> . Mouse-blacken that area in the, say, dtterm.
>
> . Hit Copy-button.
>
> . Flip into the window emacs owns.
>
> . *Usually*, C-y works. If not, hit the paste-button.
>
>
> What if anything this scheme for Sun Solaris implies for
> Linux, I don't know.
>
Very little I expect unless you are using a Sun keyboard with Linux!
Generally under X windows, you mark the text (either with the mouse or
usiing the mark region commands - its useful to enable
transient-mark-mode if you use the mouse), switch to the other
application you want to paste into and hit the middle mouse
button. Note that the 'windows style' Ctl-v usually doesn't work
consistently - there is some trickery you can do using the xclipboard,
but I've found it too much of a hassle to bother with and there are
still some apps which don't recognize the xclipboard.
Tim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-10 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 12:17 copy/paste to/from emacs Baloff
2005-07-21 19:22 ` Marc Tfardy
2005-07-22 13:50 ` Baloff
2005-07-21 21:20 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-07-21 21:47 ` Charles philip Chan
2005-08-09 20:49 ` David Combs
2005-08-10 8:15 ` Tim X [this message]
2005-07-21 19:53 ` Haizi Zheng
2005-07-22 5:54 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <mailman.1221.1121977384.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-22 6:00 ` Tim X
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