pasting text from other program in emacs

[Steve Revilak]

> From: Javier <javier@nospam.com>

> 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.

Copy the external program's text to your window manager's clipboard;
then, in an emacs buffer, press C-y to paste the clipboard contents
into the buffer.

You may also want to have a look at

   M-x describe-variable x-select-enable-clipboard RET


> Is this a new "feature" of emacs 23?

Clipboard access is not a new feature of emacs 23.


Steve

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