From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding clipboard content to the kill ring automatically (Windows)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:33:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wgi3daj.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20090913T194141-129@post.gmane.org
PT <spamfilteraccount@gmail.com> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> Yes, set x-select-enable-clipboard to nil, while you edit and don't
>> want to clobber what's in the clipboard. Then re-set it to t after
>> you are done editing.
>>
>
> Okay, by automatically I meant some method which doesn't require manual
> intervention.
>
> Manually I can yank clipboard first, undo it, this way it gets to
> the kill-ring, then do some other killings and finally retrieve
> clipboard text from the kill ring with M-y
>
> The point is I want some automatic solution like running an idle timer
> every second or so which checks if there is new text on the clipboard
> and if so then adds it to the kill ring. This is sort of a brute force
> solution, having a constantly running timer, that's why I asked if there
> is a more intelligent automatic solution for the problem than that.
I use something like the following, when I need to grab a couple of
links in some browser. I don't know know, if that works on w32 and it is
likely going to destroy any non-text clipboard content.
(defun kill-clipboard-fn (type)
(kill-new (x-get-selection))
(x-set-selection nil (x-get-selection)))
(define-minor-mode auto-kill-clipboard
nil nil nil nil
:global t
(if (not auto-kill-clipboard)
(remove-hook 'x-lost-selection-functions 'kill-clipboard-fn)
(x-set-selection nil (x-get-selection))
(add-hook 'x-lost-selection-functions 'kill-clipboard-fn)))
-ap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-13 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-13 16:59 Adding clipboard content to the kill ring automatically (Windows) PT
2009-09-13 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-13 17:48 ` PT
2009-09-13 18:33 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2009-09-13 19:27 ` PT
2009-09-13 23:01 ` Jeff Clough
2009-09-14 4:48 ` PT
2009-09-14 6:05 ` PT
[not found] ` <mailman.6633.1252908378.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-23 16:29 ` bigfaceworm
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