Maybe I'm going mad, but I'm having a hard time getting the copy & paste to work, could anyone help me out please?

I'm following the emacs commands for kill and yank, but I just don't seem to be able to get them to work

Needless to say I'm not an experienced emacs user...

Okay, asking for help seems to, er.. help, I can now get it to work by looking up the commands in helm ( <SPC> <:> ) but I'm still stuck on the right key sequence.

@bordeltabernacle: i tend to use the vim keybindings for copying, which are in effect in "visual mode"... is there a reason you're trying to use the emacs keys specifically?

e.g. "Shift-v y" to copy/"yank" a line

To be honest, I've been using Github's Atom editor, and I'm used to Ctrl-C Ctrl-V. I've used Vim a bit, but because of the ease of use with Atom I've never before invested the time in properly learning either vim or emacs, and I think I'm getting myself confused with the vim/emacs crossover of spacemacs. I haven't fully got my head around the concepts involved, and I don't want to get put off by having a hard time doing something like copy/paste.

i see. yeah this case is especially unfortunate, because copy/paste is a case where vim and emacs are both different from the usual copy/paste... in different ways

that said, i would recommend learning the vim way first

at least on spacemacs

as far as i can tell it works in spacemacs exactly like it does in regular vim, so documentation you'd find about it would all be relevant

I've just tried your vim keybindings and they work a treat, thankyou

such as http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Copy,_cut_and_paste

ok, that's interesting, I've mostly been looking at emacs docs

Thankyou @alandipert that's been a great help

cool no problem

also be sure to type 'fd' wherever yuo see vim tutorials talk about hitting Esc

Esc works sometimes in spacemacs... but fd works always

hey all — does anyone know how to launch the GUI version of spacemacs with emacsclient when running emacs —daemon? It always opens the terminal version for me (OSX)

@jeremyraines: what arguments are you passing to emacsclient?

i’ve tried none, -c , and -c -a””