From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to clipboard copy emacs help text by user-made interactive function kill-ring-save Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 07:36:09 +0200 Message-ID: <86woj0jik6.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="264961"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 09 07:36:34 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hObjM-0016k7-Jv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 07:36:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48255 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hObjL-00012A-J2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 01:36:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hObjA-000123-GL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 01:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hObj9-00072i-Bn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 01:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56092 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hObj9-00071i-5E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 01:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hObj6-0016Sj-TZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 07:36:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:l6v0ey3uQ89cC2oCxFZAWmnH6dU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120271 Archived-At: Budi wrote: > I tried to clipboard copy some emacs > read-only text by user-made interactive > function kill-ring-save, but fail It's not > M-w bound to kill-ring-save emacs built in > function which is working I'll be happy to (try) to help you, but please try to formulate the problem in terms of what it is you want to happen, not in terms how how you tried to do it already. It gets confused that way :) You want to `kill-ring-save' the text in the region? If so, just set it (the region) and hit M-w :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573