From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: notbob Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:11:48 GMT Organization: ....little, if any 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 1291857355 1841 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 01:15:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 01:15:55 +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 Dec 09 02:15:51 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 1PQV6s-0007xe-2l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:15:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36447 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQV6r-00047U-94 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:15:49 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe21.iad.POSTED!800a5453!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:11:48 UTC Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180591 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:76363 Archived-At: On 2010-08-11, Andrea Crotti wrote: > A workardound is to delete first and then copy-paste. You call it a workaround. I call it common sense. Same number of steps. > 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"? Not sure what you are calling a kill ring, but you could use KDE desktop and its Windows-like clipboard copy/cut/paste approach while running emacs in konsole. No doubt there are other options, this being Linux, not M$ or Apple. nb