I'm using Red Hat 8 and I'm really fustrated with cut and paste.

When I am viewing a URL in emacs I cannot paste it into the browser address window.

Yesterday, I tried VI (or was it VIM?) and it recognized it as a URL and allowed me to right mouse click on it and brought up the browser with that URL automically.

Sometimes, in emacs or VI (but not today so far) a little window in the bottom right hand corner of the screen pops up (but never when I need it) and asks if I want to open the URL in the browser. But since I rebooted, it does not seem to be working.

Is there a way that I don't have to manually type in a long URL that is already in emacs? emacs does not seem to be able to cut so any other application can read it.

Cutting, copying and pasting within emacs works fine.

And what about drag and drop? In windows, I can run windows explorer and drag files from windows explorer and drop them in emacs and emacs will open up the file.

I cannot get that to work with Konquerer. Should it? Is emacs at fault or Konquerer? I've heard about nautilaus, will that implement drag and drop into emacs?

Is there a file view that emulates windows explorer better than konquerer? Konquere does not seem to display two panes where the left hand pane is a list of directories only.

Thanks,
siegfried