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Re: Copy variable to system clipboard (as simpleclip)
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Copy variable to system clipboard (as simpleclip) |
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Tue, 08 Aug 2017 02:23:55 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Tim Johnson wrote:
> I use simpleclip routinely so that I can copy
> and paste from the system clipboard without
> affecting the emacs kill ring. However,
> I could use a function that would copy any
> string variable (such as output from
> buffer-file-name) to the system clipboard.
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> Is such function available?
Yes, use xsel(1x) as I did here - one of the
first things I wrote in Elisp by the way -
could probably benefit from an upgrade, but
hey, if it ain't broke, fix it, to make sure
it is!
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/xsel.el
--
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