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: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:25:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87vd7g9ang.fsf@tux.homenetwork> 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 1281633988 27631 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2010 17:26:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:26:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 12 19:26:27 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 1OjbXu-0003C8-SW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:26:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjbXu-0000P7-8w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57351 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjbXR-0000NG-MZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:25:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjbXQ-00076A-Bd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:25:57 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:35346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjbXQ-00075Y-26 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:25:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjbXN-0002o1-VA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:25:53 +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 ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:25:53 +0200 Original-Received: from adamsonj by chondestes.bio.unc.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:25:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 56 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:MIAEkjzvJMu9aQIcfPOfAW1y+gk= 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:74578 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thierry Volpiatto writes: > Joel James Adamson writes: > >> 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. > > You can't do that if emacs and firefox are on differents desktops. > But you can use mouse2 (don't know for OSX). > You can use that also: Hi Thierry, What do you mean I can't? I do that all the time. Do you mean desktops as in virtual desktops, as in many X window managers? As I said, I do it all the time. 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) iF4EAREIAAYFAkxkLpgACgkQp61eY7lvATLLnQEAiALYSl4pWuVn3Sd8984/70/S z8kefJAXkukGkhpvmSMA/RXobRoAVj6duSa6ZLl+SF4V7zjW/8vH+xjs2fu4Gjul =sB9X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--