From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joel James Adamson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:15:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281554200 17079 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2010 19:16:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:16:40 +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 11 21:16:39 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 1OjGn0-0003Ni-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:16:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjGn0-0007ko-2c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56816 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjGma-0007jZ-DQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:16:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjGmY-00072m-VT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:16:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43200) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjGmY-00072M-Or for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:16:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjGmV-00036c-RG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:16:07 +0200 Original-Received: from chondestes.bio.unc.edu ([152.2.67.61]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:16:07 +0200 Original-Received: from adamsonj by chondestes.bio.unc.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:16:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: chondestes.bio.unc.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BaxRvj2kFF/8E5YCbxD3PCOLatw= 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:74553 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Andrea Crotti 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 =2D-=20 Joel J. Adamson FSF Member #8164 http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAkxi9u0ACgkQp61eY7lvATKIjwD+ItrrwN+AIviyt/W0sl9fzJFD DWd2DBl4xAdfDTrz+n4A/imxe3QT41ehj6xZOQZTWXs7edh/3JvC7EUvD6oHEcRM =/kuF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--