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Re: macintosh OSX emacs: copy/paste
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Greg Trafton |
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Re: macintosh OSX emacs: copy/paste |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:06:36 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.090012 (Oort Gnus v0.12) Emacs/21.3.50 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.3) |
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