From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:47:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282744249 8614 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2010 13:50:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:50:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 25 15:50:47 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 1OoGNK-0006cA-VU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:50:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51397 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OoGNK-0006Jx-Ml for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53396 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OoGMo-0006IU-Rc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:50:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoGMn-00033U-6a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:50:14 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50189) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoGMm-00032q-WB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:50:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoGMf-0005u9-Ly for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:50:05 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc1-cmbg13-0-0-cust596.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.9.122.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:50:05 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by cpc1-cmbg13-0-0-cust596.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:50:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc1-cmbg13-0-0-cust596.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAElBMVEUAAAAAAP+LRRP0pGC+ vr7///+7mT1iAAAAAWJLR0QAiAUdSAAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAAd0SU1FB9cBBwMO DhglKe4AAAEsSURBVCjPbZNBboQwDEV/Cd4X9QJRThApmn0XYW+Jyf2v0m+HhqDBgiAe9rcTG7QH w/1Vn2Ar8gBb/ocywSN3qK9T3z4eFDB4eApocBpeBs1RSykoJd8gQcm8pGmHXFso3ajnmsqV0TnY DQkOfXUfN5NwaI7AWTVOyEhcu1aHmdWItHddUVUcUgUBCkitu8V6ditHVOVdqzl2EQ1ZVGTbdK0V 7cqn8vWzoU5Q/bF9Y/Y0cRU1xwkys5dJ+Dt6pBDWifcNQml8Gh2JVmPSoQzo7en0grswkxrUGYJ7 0hSxxAGr7ZMwYcHIzprpi7TENEE1xtiYxixRlCfPBsUUrwHD7uGIwATrbnODJcVrPpVn3hxiGloe m/S+z3CtuzUSMo83N4DPH+F0evwR3P4A2k+75838OKQAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (Mac OS X 10.6.4) Cancel-Lock: sha1:a9KDbEdlTvD6W7mTkydpJGGxAlg= 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:74802 Archived-At: 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. Leo