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Re: Simple copy & paste problem


From: David Combs
Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:27:35 -0000

In article <mailman.4.1282744218.27059.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Leo  <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
>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.

No such variable as save-interprogram... in 23.0.0.1, at least
not via C-h v.

David




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