From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pasting texts into terminal emacs buffer
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:38:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgbbj7pi.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86lfh3rx8k.fsf@x201.butler.org
>>>>> Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca> writes:
> Benjamín Buccianti <benjamin@buccianti.dev> writes:
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>> kevin shell <kshell@gmx.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello emacs users. I use gnome-terminal to start emacs with
>>> "emacs -nw", when I try to paste texts into emacs buffer, the
>>> echo area outputs "Beginning of buffer", nothing pasting into
>>> emacs. How can I paste texts into emacs?
>>
>> Are you pressing Ctrl-v ?
>>
>> I think the correct keybinding would be Ctrl-y (from yank).
>>
>> Hope it helps!
> The OP is using emacs inside gnome-terminal. I would recommend
> using emacs to run your shell sessions in, and dispense with
> gnome-terminal.
> M-x shell
> or
> M-x term
There has to be something amiss in the OP's setup. I use emacs in a
terminal (xterm) all the time and experience no "copy/paste" issues. One
thing I had to do though was to fix the 'Alt' key by putting
`XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true' in my ~/.Xdefaults
Best wishes,
Colin Baxter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-21 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-20 5:57 Pasting texts into terminal emacs buffer kevin shell
2020-09-20 6:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 12:00 ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-20 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 13:26 ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-20 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 14:32 ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-20 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 14:56 ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-20 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-22 10:00 ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-20 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-20 16:38 ` Benjamín Buccianti
2020-09-21 15:00 ` Leo Butler
2020-09-21 18:38 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2020-09-21 23:26 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-22 6:21 ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-22 6:55 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-24 15:26 ` Jean Louis
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