From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 01:48:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291864633 26895 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 03:17:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:17:13 +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 04:17:09 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 1PQX0F-0004ah-9d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:17:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40430 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQX0E-0005XO-Bb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:17:06 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1283651329 25180 166.84.1.3 (5 Sep 2010 01:48:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 01:48:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181147 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:76531 Archived-At: In article , Glauber Alex Dias Prado wrote: >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"? > >never found something like this what i usually do is paste first then >kill or kill first then paste, dunno how much a solution to this problem >would be os dependant though. > FWIW, when I want to COPY a region, I do this: C-w y (yank it right back -- or C-x u (undo)) go to other location y (again) David