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Re: macintosh OSX emacs: copy/paste
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Hugo Wolf |
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Re: macintosh OSX emacs: copy/paste |
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Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:27:47 GMT |
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In <m2adhq1qmt.fsf@resume.itd.nrl.navy.mil> Greg Trafton wrote:
> I copy it to the
> clipboard, but apple-v / paste does not work.
The command (apple) key is treated by emacs either as alt or as meta,
depending on your configuration. In general it doesn't work like a
command key in the MacOS sense (except for cmd-H).
For paste into emacs use mouse-middle or emacs' Edit menu.
> (the reverse is true
> also: I can't copy stuff from emacs into a separate document or
> application)
Any text you mark in emacs is effectively "copied". So just mark it in
emacs and hit cmd-V in other OSX apps.
> instead, the apple key seems to be a control key
By default it's meta, and option is alt. You can swap these via
(setq mac-command-key-is-meta nil)
> emacs is essentially not using the macintosh copy/paste properly.
It's doing what window'd emacs has always done.
> when I was running (x)emacs on a linux box, I had a 3 button mouse
> and could copy/paste with selection/second mouse key. If this is the
> preferred method of dealing with this problem i can get a 3 button
> mouse ;-)
You should get a 2-button+wheel mouse anyway (the wheel can be clicked
for mouse-middle) . They're really cheap and they're useful not only in
carbon emacs but also in Aqua in general (Cocoa apps in particular) and
in X11.
> A second thing I would like to know how to do is in Oort Gnus v0.12,
> drag and drop an attachment into a mac folder.
There isn't much drag&drop support in this version of emacs. You can
drag files from the Finder into emacs and it will open a buffer for them,
but afaik that's about it. I don't know about gnus specifically, since I
never use it (too slow).