On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:52 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:00:25AM +0530, François Patte wrote: > > Bonjour, > > > > I have a problem with Emacs and as I ask the question on usenet emacs > > lists and as other people using other linux distro do not have this > > problem, I ask my question here: > > > > 1- Clipboard: it seems that there is a specific clipboard for Emacs > > under Fedora/Gnome; I am unable to copy something from any other > > application and paste it in emacs. It is always the last thing > > copied/cut *in* emacs which is pasted in emacs whatever you could have > > selected and copied in other windows (say: terminal, acroread...) > > Emacs has its own clipboard, a ring buffer. The top item in emacs' > ring buffer is supposed to also be the clipboard entry for X. For > example, I just went to a gnome terminal, highlighted some text, and > returned to emacs. With C-Y, I had the text in emacs. > > I've occasionally had problems moving text between Acroread or > OpenOffice.org and Emacs, but they do weird things with their > clipboard code. My workaround is to shut both applications down and > restart them. To make life easier, look into desktop mode for emacs > (desktop.el). Something that has worked for me in the past is to paste into gedit and save - and them open the gedit text file in an emacs.