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We hope you found these tips helpful and encourage you to check out our other articles at Linux Hint. The Emacs versus vi debate was one of the original holy wars conducted on Usenet groups. In addition, useful commands and the efficient use of the keyboard to utilize the copy and paste commands were discussed. Window environments do provide copy-paste that's what happens when you use the mouse. It seems that you're running this terminal Emacs in a terminal window in a window environment. Text terminals in general do not provide a copy-paste facility. This article highlighted the process of copying and pasting using Emacs through the use of the Emacs terminology. You can't copy-paste between Emacs and a shell without using a system-wide copy-paste facility. You should see the selected text highlighted. Then, navigate the cursor to the end of the text you want to select. First, put the cursor (or “point”) at the start of the text you want to select, then press C-SPC. In Emacs, you can use the keyboard to select the text, then copy or cut it. Table: Useful commands for copying and pasting in Emacs In a text-only version of Emacs, you achieve the same thing by navigating with keys instead of a mouse. In a GUI version of Emacs, click the Edit menu (or hit F10 if it’s not visible), then move the mouse over “Paste from Kill Menu”, and you will see many of the recent entries. With Emacs, you have a history of text entries to choose from. If you want to copy text to the clipboard you have to M-x clipboard-kill-region. Pasting, by default, accesses the most recently cut/copied text. Try using the M-x clipboard-yank command. Viewing the Clipboard (Kill Ring) and Selecting an Entry to Paste Hence, it behaves like a circular list or “ring”. In a GUI version of Emacs, click the Edit menu (or hit F10 if it’s not visible), then move the mouse over Paste from Kill Menu, and you will see many of the recent entries. Another option is to ditch copy and paste with Ctrl+c and Ctrl+x, even though they. Pasting, by default, accesses the most recently cut/copied text. It is a list with wraparound behavior-when you access past its end, it goes back to the beginning, and vice versa. There is a conflict between standard shortcuts and emacs shortcuts. The kill ring (clipboard) of Emacs contains more than the most recently copied/cut text the kill ring contains a list (by default 60 at most) of recent copied/cut text. Copying can be achieved by doing a cut (kill) followed either by an undo ( C-x u) or by a yank (paste) ( C-y), or by selecting text (either with mouse or keyboard) then doing kill-ring-save ( M-w). For example, there are two commands for cutting lines ( kill-line & kill-whole-line), but not for copying lines. The region, bounded by the cursor (point) and markĬopying in Emacs does not have as many commands as cutting. Meta, usually (e.g., M-w is usually Alt-w)