11-22-2005
Trans application cut, copy and paste? Drag and Drop
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
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paste(1) General Commands Manual paste(1)
Name
paste - merge file data
Syntax
paste file1 file2...
paste -dlist file1 file2...
paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2...
Description
In the first two forms, concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc. It treats each file as a column or
columns of a table and pastes them together horizontally (parallel merging).
In the last form, the command combines subsequent lines of the input file (serial merging).
In all cases, lines are glued together with the tab character, or with characters from an optionally specified list. Output is to the
standard output, so it can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a filter, if - is used in place of a file name.
Options
- Used in place of any file name, to read a line from the standard input. (There is no prompting).
-dlist Replaces characters of all but last file with nontabs characters (default tab). One or more characters immediately following -d
replace the default tab as the line concatenation character. The list is used circularly, i. e. when exhausted, it is reused. In
parallel merging (i. e. no -s option), the lines from the last file are always terminated with a new-line character, not from the
list. The list may contain the special escape sequences:
(new-line), (tab), \ (backslash), and (empty string, not a null
character). Quoting may be necessary, if characters have special meaning to the shell (for example, to get one backslash, use
-d"\\" ).
Without this option, the new-line characters of each but the last file (or last line in case of the -s option) are replaced by a
tab character. This option allows replacing the tab character by one or more alternate characters (see below).
-s Merges subsequent lines rather than one from each input file. Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is specified with -d
option. Regardless of the list, the very last character of the file is forced to be a new-line.
Examples
ls | paste -d" " -
list directory in one column
ls | paste - - - -
list directory in four columns
paste -s -d"
" file
combine pairs of lines into lines
Diagnostics
line too long
Output lines are restricted to 511 characters.
too many files
Except for -s option, no more than 12 input files may be specified.
See Also
cut(1), grep(1), pr(1)
paste(1)