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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:35:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i42b1i$u69$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m162zhozyg.fsf@80-163.eduroam.rwth-aachen.de>

Andrea Crotti wrote:
> 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...

Delete the text in Emacs instead of killing it.  I use:

(global-set-key "\C-cw" 'delete-region)	  ; ala C-w and M-C-w

> 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"?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-13  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-11 16:51 Simple copy & paste problem Andrea Crotti
2010-08-11 17:51 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-11 18:10   ` Andrea Crotti
2010-08-11 19:05 ` Glauber Alex Dias Prado
2010-08-11 19:15 ` Joel James Adamson
2010-08-11 20:06   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-08-11 22:44     ` Andrea Crotti
2010-08-12 17:25     ` Joel James Adamson
2010-08-12 18:14       ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4.1281557372.27891.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-05  1:59     ` David Combs
2010-08-12  5:42 ` Jonathan Groll
2010-08-13  2:35 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2010-08-25 13:47 ` Leo
     [not found] ` <mailman.0.1281553020.25709.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-05  1:48   ` David Combs
2010-09-29 21:20     ` David Combs
     [not found] ` <mailman.4.1282744218.27059.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-05  2:02   ` David Combs
     [not found] <mailman.4.1281546350.9082.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-08-11 17:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-09-05  1:44   ` David Combs
2010-09-05  1:55     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-11 18:11 ` notbob

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