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Re: Simple copy & paste problem


From: Glauber Alex Dias Prado
Subject: Re: Simple copy & paste problem
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:05:19 -0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

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.



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