Re: how to get subsequent text copies to emacs kill ring?

[Joost Kremers]

Drew Adams wrote:
> 6. To change the subject a bit, I find that what annoys me the most is not an
> inability to access multiple external clipboard items from Emacs, but an
> inability to access the latest external clipboard item after I have copied
> something else (from Emacs) onto the kill ring.

Hear, hear. (Well, mutatis mutandis for Linux and OS X...)

I guess the only solution would be to place the contents of the
clipboard into the kill ring each time a kill inside Emacs is made. So a
kill would result in *two* additions to the kill ring: the external
clipboard and the text being killed. I suspect that would get annoying
real soon...

Alternatively (at least under Linux), you could (write and) run an X
server within Emacs, which would allow you to use the kill ring directly
as clipboard. (Does XWEM do this, by any chance? ;-)


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