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Re: [RP] cut and paste
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Shawn Betts |
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Re: [RP] cut and paste |
Date: |
Thu Sep 4 16:15:01 2003 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Joe Corneli <address@hidden> writes:
> I recently fired up an X-enabled Emacs 21.3.1 (the thing with the
> gutters, super and hyper, etc.) and noticed the following interesting
> thing: text that is highlighted with the mouse (in apparently any
> X-managed program) can be pasted into Emacs with C-y.
>
> Then today I noticed that there is an inverse: text that is added to the
> kill ring in Emacs can be pasted into any X-managed program with
> Shift+Insert (I guess that is mouse-button-2).
>
> Maybe Shawn has been trying to tell me this for a while?
Well, I mean c'mon, do I have to spell out everything Emacs does? :)
But seriously folks, the sooner you pick up Emacs the better off we'll
all be.
Shawn