From: Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: orzodk <orzodk@fastmail.com>
Cc: Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: multiple kill and paste from X clipboard
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:32:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87il3yqlts.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2v87ygvla.fsf@blahblah.localdomain> (orzodk@fastmail.com's message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2024 13:12:01 -0700")
orzodk <orzodk@fastmail.com> writes:
> Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to be able to paste a serie of strings from Emacs to an
>> external X program (e.g. a form with multiple entry in a web browser).
>>
>> I could put all the strings in the Emacs' kill-ring but then a paste in
>> the other program will just retrieve the last killed string. Or maybe,
>> Emacs could be informed that the last kill was paste externally and then
>> proceed to kill the next item?
>>
>> How could I do that?
>
> This is a limitation of X not Emacs. Each time you kill a value Emacs
> will put it into X's clipboard overwriting the previous value. A
> clipboard manager will help with this by keeping the history around. I
> personally use clipmenu but there are several tools to choose from. I
> also bind C-M-v in the window manager to the command to display the
> manager's history.
Thanks. I've never used a clipboard manager so maybe I should now. I
wish I could have a simpler Emacs only solution for this. I thought
that maybe Emacs could be aware when the content is get from the primary
selection or the clipboard.
--
Manuel Giraud
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-12 15:35 multiple kill and paste from X clipboard Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-01-12 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 16:58 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-01-12 19:49 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-01-13 0:42 ` Po Lu
2024-01-13 10:08 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-01-14 15:58 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-01-14 22:45 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-01-15 14:09 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-01-17 14:52 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-01-31 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-02-02 15:58 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-02-02 16:54 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-01-12 20:12 ` orzodk
2024-01-12 21:32 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
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