Pasting text into emacs on Macintosh

Question

I\'m on a Macintosh and am using \"terminal\" for my shell. When I copy text from any window (via mouse drag then right mouse button menu -> copy) and then I paste the text (ri

Answer 1

For a quick and dirty solution which doesn't require configuring custom commands, you can run shell-command with a prefix argument to insert the results of calling pbpaste into the current buffer.

Thus:

C-u M-! pbpaste