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 02:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291871090 15768 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 05:04:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:04:50 +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 06:04:46 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 1PQYgP-00077B-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:04:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33212 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQYgO-0004qa-Iy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:04:44 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!novia!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1283652178 25180 166.84.1.3 (5 Sep 2010 02:02:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 02:02:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181151 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:76705 Archived-At: In article , Leo wrote: >On 2010-08-11 17:51 +0100, 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... >> >> 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"? > >Set save-interprogram-paste-before-kill to t. If you think it should >default to t, report it as a bug. No such variable as save-interprogram... in 23.0.0.1, at least not via C-h v. David