Thanks Henri and Karl, after a bit of investigating, it turns out my Ubuntu install is somehow not working. I installed Texmacs on my Windows setup and copy paste works out of the box. So to install Texmacs on my Ubuntu 17.10 machine I did the following

1. Download http://www.texmacs.org/Download/ftp/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.6-B.tar.gz

2. Extract content in /opt

3. export paths and everything. Run $texmacs

Everything runs, I can type and everything but cut, copy and paste don't work. What I have noticed is when I fire up Texmacs on my windows and hover my mouse over the cut/copy icons, I can also see the hotkeys Ctrl+X/Ctrl+C. But in Ubuntu hovering over the same icons shows std+X/std+V. Could this be part of the problem?

Regards,

Nishan

On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 at 18:52 Karl Hegbloom <address@hidden> wrote:

It will depend on what "look and feel" you choose in Edit, Preferences...

For the Emacs look and feel, set the mark with C-Space, use arrows to extend the selection, cut with C-w, and paste with C-y.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018, 01:17 Henri Girard <address@hidden> wrote:

Ctrl X cut V paste, look at any application in the menu Edit and you have the meaning of Crtl added to the command

Regards

Henri

Le 15/01/2018 à 05:00, Nishan Singh Mann a écrit :

Hello, a new user to Texmacs on Ubuntu 17.10. Embassingly enough, I am still trying to figure out how to copy paste without using the icons in the toolbar. So far I've tried Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Alt+W, Ctlr+Y in vain. What is std+V supposed to mean?

Regards,

Nishan

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