How to paste to Emacs from clipboard on OSX?

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n_x_l picture n_x_l · Apr 3, 2012 · Viewed 42.9k times · Source

This might be extraordinarily simple, but I am playing with Emacs (22.1.1) and I can't get it to paste text in the clipboard using Control-Y.

Answer

ayckoster picture ayckoster · Apr 3, 2012

Try using the M-x clipboard-yank command. If you want to copy text to the clipboard you have to M-x clipboard-kill-region.

This works on Linux and Windows, I guess on Mac it's the same.

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