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Re: Newbie: Copy&paste text from native application into emacs?
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Pascal Bourguignon |
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Re: Newbie: Copy&paste text from native application into emacs? |
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Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:14:17 +0200 |
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Sébastien Kirche <sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr.invalid> writes:
> At 08:08 on Aug 11 2005, francisrammeloo said :
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm very new to emacs and I wonder how I can copy some text from my
>> webbrowser into an emacs buffer?
>>
>> (I use GNU Emacs on Mac OS X )
>
> Specifically, you can select and copy you text as usually with cmd-c and
> to insert into Emacs ctrl-y. For the opposite : cmd-w and paste into any
> other application as usual. If Cmd-y seems not to work, try Opt-w
All wrong! (Sorry).
Well, ctrl-y is correct, but it's written C-y in emacs-speak.
cmd-w is Command-w = Apple-w = MS-Windows-w. Nothing to do with C-w
Opt-w is Alt-w and has nothing to do with (Meta-w) M-w which can also
be typed as ESC w. It's true that on keyboards lacking a Meta key, Alt
is often mapped to Meta, but this is not necessarily the case.
> If you are very new to Emacs, i suggest you to type "Ctrl-h" then "t" :
Write it: C-h t
> it will launch the Emacs tutorial and should make you more familiar with
> the keyboard strokes and general handling & behavior of Emacs.
> BTW : in the tutorial the META key is either the mac option or command,
> it depends on the Emacs configuration of the mac-command-key-is-meta
> variable.
Ah! You see? Meta can be mapped to Command instead of Alt!
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