Re: macintosh OSX emacs: copy/paste

[Greg Trafton <trafton@itd.nrl.navy.mil>]

Hugo Wolf <hwolf@deutsches.lieder.net> writes:

> In <m2adhq1qmt.fsf@resume.itd.nrl.navy.mil> Greg Trafton  wrote:
>> I copy it to the
>> clipboard, but apple-v / paste does not work. 
>
> The command (apple) key is treated by emacs either as alt or as meta, 
> depending on your configuration.  In general it doesn't work like a 
> command key in the MacOS sense (except for cmd-H).  
>
> For paste into emacs use mouse-middle or emacs' Edit menu.

emacs' Edit menu doesn't seem to work in my case; I copy something in
mozilla (or word) and the "select and paste" in Edit doesn't show
what I copied.  but I'll get a 2 button with wheel and hope that will
fix it.

>> (the reverse is true
>> also: I can't copy stuff from emacs into a separate document or
>> application) 
>
> Any text you mark in emacs is effectively "copied".  So just mark it in 
> emacs and hit cmd-V in other OSX apps. 

yes!  that worked, great, thanks!  (duh on my part ;-)

thanks!
greg