From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: pasting text from other program in emacs Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:12:26 -0800 Message-ID: <87k4ioxwth.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293909190 8361 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2011 19:13:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 19:13:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 01 20:13:06 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 1PZ6sz-0006sP-K5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:13:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ6sz-0002fG-1Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:13:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49622 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ6sd-0002f6-0z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:12:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ6sb-0005Mv-Rv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:12:42 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ6sb-0005Mn-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ6sa-0006eq-Hc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:12:40 +0100 Original-Received: from 70.67.160.177 ([70.67.160.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:12:40 +0100 Original-Received: from prad by 70.67.160.177 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:12:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.67.160.177 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QX1H5pW6GF2qr47fH99eH3BD8yI= 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:78023 Archived-At: Javier writes: > 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. Is this a > possibly i am misunderstanding, but with linux all i've done is select text with the mouse-1 and mouse-2 for the paste. this doesn't work in a console emacs (emacs -nw) unless you active the mouse in .emacs with (xterm-mouse-mode) and then hold shift down before doing mouse-2. -- in friendship, prad