Re: [RP] cut and paste

[Shawn Betts]

Joe Corneli <address@hidden> writes:

> I recently fired up an X-enabled Emacs 21.3.1 (the thing with the
> gutters, super and hyper, etc.) and noticed the following interesting
> thing: text that is highlighted with the mouse (in apparently any
> X-managed program) can be pasted into Emacs with C-y.
> 
> Then today I noticed that there is an inverse: text that is added to the
> kill ring in Emacs can be pasted into any X-managed program with
> Shift+Insert (I guess that is mouse-button-2).
> 
> Maybe Shawn has been trying to tell me this for a while?

Well, I mean c'mon, do I have to spell out everything Emacs does? :)

But seriously folks, the sooner you pick up Emacs the better off we'll
all be.

Shawn