From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Trafton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: macintosh OSX emacs: copy/paste Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:06:36 -0500 Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030124132747796-0500@news.genuity.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043436211 11626 80.91.224.249 (24 Jan 2003 19:23:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18c9DE-0002De-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:10:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18c9Dk-0007wB-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:10:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: resume.itd.nrl.navy.mil Original-X-Trace: ra.nrl.navy.mil 1043434955 6284 132.250.80.171 (24 Jan 2003 19:02:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@ra.nrl.navy.mil Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:02:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090012 (Oort Gnus v0.12) Emacs/21.3.50 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.3) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ih/B/4K8+lOVBcIOhYCsCpvvlZo= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109424 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5946 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5946 Hugo Wolf writes: > In 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