From: Joel James Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:15:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3iq3hneoi.fsf@chondestes.bio.unc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m162zhozyg.fsf@80-163.eduroam.rwth-aachen.de
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Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> 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"?
How about drag and drop? Does that work on OS X? Select the text, then
drag it to Emacs. That's usually what I do when I want to go from
Firefox to Emacs.
Joel
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-11 16:51 Simple copy & paste problem Andrea Crotti
2010-08-11 17:51 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-11 18:10 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-08-11 19:05 ` Glauber Alex Dias Prado
2010-08-11 19:15 ` Joel James Adamson [this message]
2010-08-11 20:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-08-11 22:44 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-08-12 17:25 ` Joel James Adamson
2010-08-12 18:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1281557372.27891.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-05 1:59 ` David Combs
2010-08-12 5:42 ` Jonathan Groll
2010-08-13 2:35 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-08-25 13:47 ` Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1281553020.25709.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-05 1:48 ` David Combs
2010-09-29 21:20 ` David Combs
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1282744218.27059.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-05 2:02 ` David Combs
[not found] <mailman.4.1281546350.9082.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-08-11 17:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-09-05 1:44 ` David Combs
2010-09-05 1:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-11 18:11 ` notbob
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