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: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:06:43 +0200 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <87vd7g9ang.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281557403 331 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2010 20:10:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:10:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 11 22:09:59 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 1OjHcb-000532-Un for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:09:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44646 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjHcb-0005IC-6G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45651 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjHc9-00058X-4o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:09:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjHc7-00066Z-LL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:09:28 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43785) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjHc7-00066Q-FQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjHc3-0004pK-SK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:09:23 +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 ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:09:23 +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 ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:09:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 49 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:QVTFR+6oWkyMPN+YxMb6nEfTQYQ= 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:74554 Archived-At: 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: ,---- | (defun yank-from-clipboard () | (interactive) | (let ((primary (x-selection 'PRIMARY))) | (when primary (insert primary)))) | (global-set-key (kbd "C-c v") 'yank-from-clipboard) `---- Like that nothing is added to emacs kill-ring. If you don't mind adding to emacs kill-ring: ,---- | ;; (setq interprogram-paste-function 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value) | ;; (setq x-select-enable-primary t) `---- -- Thierry Volpiatto Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997