When I run M-x clipboard-kill-ring-save
, emacs tells me:
You can run the command `clipboard-kill-ring-save' with <copy>
How do I use <copy>
? M-x <copy>
simply says [No match]
.
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Sign up to join this communityIt refers to the "Copy" key found on e.g. Sun keyboards, as in this photo (second key from the left, third from the bottom):
Emacs refers to special ("pseudo") keys with <angle brackets>
. From the EmacsWiki on key notation:
Some keys are referred to as “function” keys or “pseudo” keys. This includes keys that are not among the keyboard function keys
F1
,…F12
. It includes keys that might not be on your keyboard, but are on other keyboards. It even includes keys, such as<insert-file>
, that are not on any keyboard, anywhere. For one thing, Emacs treats menu bindings as key bindings: a menu item is implemented as a pseudo key.
So, for example, <left>
refers to the left arrow key. I've never heard of the <copy>
key, so I presume it's referring to the menu binding rather than a key.