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Re: Simple copy & paste problem


From: Leo
Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:47:06 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (Mac OS X 10.6.4)

On 2010-08-11 17:51 +0100, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> 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"?

Set save-interprogram-paste-before-kill to t. If you think it should
default to t, report it as a bug.

Leo




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