Re: pasting text from other program in emacs

[Jonathan Groll]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:30:37 -0500, Steve Revilak <steve@srevilak.net> wrote:

> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
> >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 might also want to try the IBM CUA keybinding of Shift-Insert to
perform a 'paste/yank'.

Cheers,
Jonathan
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