Compleet buffer to clipboard

Compleet buffer to clipboard

[Decebal]

A lot of times I want to copy the complete buffer to the clipboard.
This is possible with:
    C-x h
    M-w

But one of the complications is that you lose your cursor position.
When you put in yor .emacs:
    (defun buffer-yank()
      (interactive)
      (kill-new (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max))))

    (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-a") 'buffer-yank)

Then you can use:
    C-c C-a
to copy the complete buffer to the clipboard.

RE: Compleet buffer to clipboard

[Drew Adams]

> A lot of times I want to copy the complete buffer to the clipboard.
> This is possible with: C-x h M-w
> But one of the complications is that you lose your cursor position.

C-u C-SPC  C-u C-SPC should take you back where you were.

Re: Compleet buffer to clipboard

[Decebal]

On 18 apr, 18:27, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > A lot of times I want to copy the complete buffer to the clipboard.
> > This is possible with: C-x h M-w
> > But one of the complications is that you lose your cursor position.
>
> C-u C-SPC  C-u C-SPC should take you back where you were.

I did not know that. But I prefer my solution. ;-}
I find it easier and faster to do:
    C-c C-a
then to do:
    C-x h
    M-w
    C-u C-SPC
    C-u C-SPC

Re: Compleet buffer to clipboard

[B. T. Raven]

Decebal wrote:
> On 18 apr, 18:27, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> A lot of times I want to copy the complete buffer to the clipboard.
>>> This is possible with: C-x h M-w
>>> But one of the complications is that you lose your cursor position.
>> C-u C-SPC  C-u C-SPC should take you back where you were.
> 
> I did not know that. But I prefer my solution. ;-}
> I find it easier and faster to do:
>     C-c C-a
> then to do:
>     C-x h
>     M-w
>     C-u C-SPC
>     C-u C-SPC

What is C-c C-a bound to? It's undefined here. In any case your solution 
involves two more (unnecessary) key chords than Drew's

Or do you mean ... easier ..... THAN to do: ???

Re: Compleet buffer to clipboard

[B. T. Raven]

B. T. Raven wrote:
> Decebal wrote:
>> On 18 apr, 18:27, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> A lot of times I want to copy the complete buffer to the clipboard.
>>>> This is possible with: C-x h M-w
>>>> But one of the complications is that you lose your cursor position.
>>> C-u C-SPC  C-u C-SPC should take you back where you were.
>>
>> I did not know that. But I prefer my solution. ;-}
>> I find it easier and faster to do:
>>     C-c C-a
>> then to do:
>>     C-x h
>>     M-w
>>     C-u C-SPC
>>     C-u C-SPC
> 
> What is C-c C-a bound to? It's undefined here. In any case your solution 
> involves two more (unnecessary) key chords than Drew's
> 
> Or do you mean ... easier ..... THAN to do: ???

Oops! I read Drew's answer but not the o.p.

This also doesn't seem to mess with the mark or at least the docs say 
"In Transient Mark mode, deactivate the mark."

  (defun buffer-yank()
       (interactive)
       (kill-ring-save(point-min)(point-max)))

     (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-a") 'buffer-yank)

Does your version cut from the original buffer or just copy?

Re: Compleet buffer to clipboard

[Decebal]

On Apr 18, 7:58 pm, "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> wrote:
> >> I find it easier and faster to do:
> >>     C-c C-a
> >> then to do:
> >>     C-x h
> >>     M-w
> >>     C-u C-SPC
> >>     C-u C-SPC
>
> > What is C-c C-a bound to? It's undefined here. In any case your solution
> > involves two more (unnecessary) key chords than Drew's
>
> > Or do you mean ... easier ..... THAN to do: ???

Excuse my English. It should have been than. :-{
>
> Oops! I read Drew's answer but not the o.p.
>
> This also doesn't seem to mess with the mark or at least the docs say
> "In Transient Mark mode, deactivate the mark."
>
>   (defun buffer-yank()
>        (interactive)
>        (kill-ring-save(point-min)(point-max)))
>
>      (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-a") 'buffer-yank)
>
> Does your version cut from the original buffer or just copy?

This does a copy. (That is what I almost alway want, and otherwise is
'C-x h, C-w' not so bad to do.) But I could change the function that
with 'C-u' prepended it does a cut instead of a copy.

Re: Compleet buffer to clipboard

[Xah Lee]

On Apr 18, 5:27 am, Decebal <CLDWester...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A lot of times I want to copy the complete buffer to the clipboard.
> This is possible with:
>     C-x h
>     M-w
>
> But one of the complications is that you lose your cursor position.
> When you put in yor .emacs:
>     (defun buffer-yank()
>       (interactive)
>       (kill-new (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max))))
>
>     (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-a") 'buffer-yank)
>
> Then you can use:
>     C-c C-a
> to copy the complete buffer to the clipboard.

Here's what i use:

(defun copy-all ()
  "Put the whole buffer content into the kill-ring.
If narrow-to-region is in effect, then just copy that region."
  (interactive)
  (kill-ring-save (point-min) (point-max))
  (message "Buffer content copied")
  )

(defun cut-all ()
  "Cut the whole buffer content into the kill-ring.
If narrow-to-region is in effect, then just copy that region."
  (interactive)
  (kill-region (point-min) (point-max))
  (message "Buffer content cut")
  )

assigned to Alt+Shift+C and Alt+Shift+X.

From http://code.google.com/p/ergoemacs/

I also find the that select all in emacs (mark-whole-buffer)'s
behavior of losing cursor position very annoying. One time i got
curious, and checked. This doesn't happen in all editors i know of.
With the above 2 commands, now i basically never do select all in
emacs.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄

Re: Compleet buffer to clipboard

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Decebal,

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 05:27:38AM -0700, Decebal wrote:
> A lot of times I want to copy the complete buffer to the clipboard.
> This is possible with:
>     C-x h
>     M-w

> But one of the complications is that you lose your cursor position.
> When you put in yor .emacs:
>     (defun buffer-yank()
>       (interactive)
>       (kill-new (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max))))

>     (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-a") 'buffer-yank)

> Then you can use:
>     C-c C-a
> to copy the complete buffer to the clipboard.

Sort of, some of the time.  C-c C-a is a binding reserved for major modes
(see page "Key Binding Conventions" in the elisp manual).  If you're in a
major mode which actually uses this binding (e.g. C Mode, Diff Mode), it
will take precedence over your `buffer-yank'.

You might be better using a binding reserved for users, say C-c a.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: Compleet buffer to clipboard

[Decebal]

On Apr 21, 8:55 am, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:
> >     (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-a") 'buffer-yank)
> > Then you can use:
> >     C-c C-a
> > to copy the complete buffer to the clipboard.
>
> Sort of, some of the time.  C-c C-a is a binding reserved for major modes
> (see page "Key Binding Conventions" in the elisp manual).  If you're in a
> major mode which actually uses this binding (e.g. C Mode, Diff Mode), it
> will take precedence over your `buffer-yank'.
>
> You might be better using a binding reserved for users, say C-c a.

Good tip, I did not know that. In my case less important, because I
only expect to use it in text-mode or modes derived from this. But it
is always good to know the potential pittfalls.