From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:14:47 +0200 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <87iq3f8zqf.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <87vd7g9ang.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281638026 24922 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2010 18:33:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:33:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 12 20:33:43 2010 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 1Ojcaz-0000cp-6p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:33:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59656 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjcMi-0001Te-Rc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57465 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjcLy-0006gO-LU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:18:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjcLN-0006ao-8V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52578) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjcLM-0006a3-Up for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:17:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjcLH-00084u-BM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:17:27 +0200 Original-Received: from 173.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:17:27 +0200 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 173.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:17:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Lcl/d6uKaexjUPTZzvkDPxSgblE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:74580 Archived-At: Joel James Adamson writes: > Thierry Volpiatto writes: > >> Joel James Adamson writes: >> >>> Andrea Crotti writes: >>> >>>> This is probably very stupid but every time I step into it and it's very >>>> annoying. >>>> >>>> Supposing I want to copy something from Safari to emacs. >>>> So I >>>> - select and copy >>>> - select and kill the text I want to substitute >>>> - try to paste >>>> >>>> ARGH! Now the text I copied from safari is disappeared... >>>> >>>> A workardound is to delete first and then copy-paste. >>>> But is there a smarter way to solve this? >>>> Something like >>>> "if I copied something from the os keep it as first in the kill ring"? >>> >>> How about drag and drop? Does that work on OS X? Select the text, then >>> drag it to Emacs. That's usually what I do when I want to go from >>> Firefox to Emacs. >> >> You can't do that if emacs and firefox are on differents desktops. >> But you can use mouse2 (don't know for OSX). >> You can use that also: > > Hi Thierry, > > What do you mean I can't? I do that all the time. Do you mean desktops > as in virtual desktops, as in many X window managers? As I said, I do > it all the time. Hi Joel, yes i mean desktop of X window managers, they are called groups in my window manager (stumpwm). I don't understand how do you drag and drop if you have not the emacs window and the firefox window on same frame or desktop. Though i don't use the mouse often, so may be i miss something, thanks to explain ;-) -- Thierry Volpiatto Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997