Re: Auto-copy to clipboard

[Tim Johnson]

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
After following the code for 'kill-ring-save, I find
that 'kill-ring-new is the likely candidate.
Any other ideas would be welcome, but it looks promising....
tj