I am unable to yank text into a terminal running in Emacs.
This is my procedure:
I killed the string "date" from one buffer and yanked it into the terminal in another buffer and hit return.
The terminal behaves as if I typed nothing. It just returns the prompt back.
I am using OS X 10.5.8 and Emacs 23.1. I have tried this procedure on Aquamacs, Carbon Emacs, and the release from http://emacsformacosx.com/. They all show this weird behaviour even in their default configurations with my .emacs file empty. What could possibly be causing this?
In the buffer with the terminal running, put the terminal into line mode with
C-c C-j
. To paste in your text, now pressS-Insert
(that's Shift-Insert). If you need the terminal to go back to char mode afterwards, it'sC-c C-k
.