Re: Simple copy & paste problem

[Joel James Adamson]

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

> Joel James Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> 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
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