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Re: emacsclient and Mac OS's clipboard
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rusi |
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Re: emacsclient and Mac OS's clipboard |
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Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:59:09 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Apr 26, 12:38 am, michaelsbradle...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm running the latest pretest from the "Emacs For Mac OS X" website
> (Emacs-pretest-24.0.95-universal-10.6.8.dmg) on Mac OS version 10.7.
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> If I launch Emacs in a standalone fashion (i.e. double-click on Emacs.app),
> the editor's kill ring and the OS's clipboard "communicate" with each other
> such that I can copy/paste back and forth between Emacs and other
> applications.
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> However, if I launch Emacs in --daemon mode and then fire up `emacsclient
> -c`, I find that the client's kill ring does not "communicate" with the OS's
> clipboard, and it's seemingly impossible to copy/paste between Emacs and
> other applications. A workaround is to use some intermediate text file, which
> I have open in say Emacs and TextEdit, but obviously that's not a great
> solution.
>
> I'm hunting for a fix to this problem (if one exists) but am coming up short
> with google searches, et al.
>
> Thanks for your help.
No idea about mac or the discrepancy between standalone and daemon-
client emacs.
Still you might want to look at the value of the variable x-select-
enable-clipboard