From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Simple copy & paste problem Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:51:58 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281549192 26683 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2010 17:53:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:53:12 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Andrea Crotti'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 11 19:53:07 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 1OjFTu-0003TZ-1g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:53:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51743 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjFTj-0001Kj-DP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:52:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58749 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjFTN-0001KQ-Hf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:52:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjFTM-0001eR-B9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:42909) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjFTL-0001eF-U0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o7BHqAaX019581 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:52:11 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o7BHq7NM030590; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:52:09 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt010.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 487477691281549119; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:51:59 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:51:59 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Acs5d4jY6cMvUi5MQl+VeItTfEIu3wABiAcA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 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:74549 Archived-At: > 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"? When you report a problem, always mention your Emacs version. If you are using a development version, then be aware that there is currently a lot of change being made to the way selection (& copy & paste) behaves. There are still problems that need to be fixed. Look at the bug list if you want to see what problems are being discussed.