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Re: Copying text from emacs to another application using M-w


From: Harry Putnam
Subject: Re: Copying text from emacs to another application using M-w
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:41:55 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

despen@verizon.net writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> Here is an example of the kind of thing that keeps aggravating me.
>>
>> I've run a search with homemade grepping tool in an Xterm window
>> The search results are printing to screen and running off the viewing
>> area.
>>
>> I scroll backup up the xterm buffer and find a file name I want to
>> open.
>
> Does your home made grepping tool output lines in a format similar to
> grep?  It should.
>
> That way you can use M-x grep, change the command string to your home
> made tool, then edit the file you want by clicking on the name in
> the grep buffer.

Your talking about working inside a running emacs... this thread is
about copying to/from external terminal or application to/from emacs
not from inside emacs.





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