Re: Clipboard support in console

Re: Clipboard support in console

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Aug 14 2003, Heiko Gerdau wrote:

> starting emacs with -nw in a console on linux: Is there a way to copy a 
> region to the x-clipboard without using the mouse?

If there is genuine Emacs-only solution, you may mark the region as
usual and pipe[1] it to "xsel -c"[2].

Bye, Reiner.

[1] `M-|' runs the command shell-command-on-region

[2] <URL:http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~vherva/xsel/>
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Re: Clipboard support in console

[Heiko Gerdau]

On Thursday 14 August 2003 19:30, Reiner Steib wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14 2003, Heiko Gerdau wrote:
> > starting emacs with -nw in a console on linux: Is there a way to copy
> > a region to the x-clipboard without using the mouse?
>
> If there is genuine Emacs-only solution, you may mark the region as
> usual and pipe[1] it to "xsel -c"[2].
>
> Bye, Reiner.
>
> [1] `M-|' runs the command shell-command-on-region
>
> [2] <URL:http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~vherva/xsel/>

Very interesting, I've never heard from xsel before. Thanks Reiner.

Heiko

Re: Clipboard support in console

[Kai Großjohann]

Heiko Gerdau <hg@technosis.de> writes:

> starting emacs with -nw in a console on linux: Is there a way to copy a 
> region to the x-clipboard without using the mouse?

FWIW: it's trivial for emacs *without* "-nw".  So if you don't really
*need* "-nw"...
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Clipboard support in console

[Heiko Gerdau]

Hi,

starting emacs with -nw in a console on linux: Is there a way to copy a 
region to the x-clipboard without using the mouse?

Thanks for your attention

Heiko