Re: Auto-copy to clipboard

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Tim Johnson wrote:
> Using GNU Emacs 22.1.1, kubuntu 7.1 with KDE 3.5.8
>
> I'd like to able to
> 1)compose a string of text (that's easy)
> 2)Send that string directly to the clipboard,
>   just as if I had inserted that text into
>   the buffer, selected it and done kill-ring-save
>   or kill-region.
>
> Is there a function to do that?
> If not, suggestions are welcome and pointers to docs
> encouraged.
> thanks
> Tim

To find out you may use

  C-h k

and then enter the yank command. You then get the help text from where 
you can go directly to the source code.