From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: how to get subsequent text copies to emacs kill ring?
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 21:18:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871u967myb.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.25922.1368716751.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Thu, 16 May 2013 17:05:44 +0200")
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 16.05.2013 um 16:59 schrieb Paul K:
>
> > Is it possible???
>
> No. GNU Emacs fills its kill-ring with snippets from within. Firefox
> and X11 have their own cut&paste boards. Both are not
> synchronised. Maybe xclipboard can be useful for you as an interim
> storage…
Having something like that in Emacs indeed would be really useful.
I think this is not trivial to implement. Emacs has access to the
primary selection, but doesn't notice if it changes. Any ideas?
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-16 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-16 14:59 how to get subsequent text copies to emacs kill ring? Paul K
2013-05-16 15:05 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.25922.1368716751.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-16 19:18 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2013-05-16 20:16 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-17 0:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-17 1:38 ` Samuel Wales
2013-05-17 5:00 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.25948.1368735385.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-16 23:06 ` Joost Kremers
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