Re: pasting text from other program in emacs

[prad]

Javier <javier@nospam.com> writes:

> Does anybody know how to do to paste text from external programs into an
> emacs window?  I am using emacs 23.2.1 and debian Squezze.  Is this a
>
possibly i am misunderstanding, but with linux all i've done is select
text with the mouse-1 and mouse-2 for the paste. this doesn't work in a
console emacs (emacs -nw) unless you active the mouse in .emacs with
(xterm-mouse-mode)
and then hold shift down before doing mouse-2.

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in friendship,
prad