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Re: Simple copy & paste problem
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David Combs |
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Re: Simple copy & paste problem |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:27:33 -0000 |
In article <mailman.0.1281553020.25709.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Glauber Alex Dias Prado <smade4@gmail.com> wrote:
>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"?
>
>never found something like this what i usually do is paste first then
>kill or kill first then paste, dunno how much a solution to this problem
>would be os dependant though.
>
FWIW, when I want to COPY a region, I do this:
C-w
y (yank it right back -- or C-x u (undo))
go to other location
y (again)
David