Auto-copy to clipboard

Auto-copy to clipboard

[Tim Johnson]

Using GNU Emacs 22.1.1, kubuntu 7.1 with KDE 3.5.8

I'd like to able to
1)compose a string of text (that's easy)
2)Send that string directly to the clipboard,
  just as if I had inserted that text into
  the buffer, selected it and done kill-ring-save
  or kill-region.

Is there a function to do that?
If not, suggestions are welcome and pointers to docs
encouraged.
thanks
Tim

Re: Auto-copy to clipboard

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Tim Johnson wrote:
> Using GNU Emacs 22.1.1, kubuntu 7.1 with KDE 3.5.8
> 
> I'd like to able to
> 1)compose a string of text (that's easy)
> 2)Send that string directly to the clipboard,
>   just as if I had inserted that text into
>   the buffer, selected it and done kill-ring-save
>   or kill-region.
> 
> Is there a function to do that?
> If not, suggestions are welcome and pointers to docs
> encouraged.
> thanks
> Tim

To find out you may use

   C-h k

and then enter the yank command. You then get the help text from where 
you can go directly to the source code.

Re: Auto-copy to clipboard

[Tim Johnson]

Tim Johnson wrote:

> Using GNU Emacs 22.1.1, kubuntu 7.1 with KDE 3.5.8
> 
> I'd like to able to
> 1)compose a string of text (that's easy)
> 2)Send that string directly to the clipboard,
>   just as if I had inserted that text into
>   the buffer, selected it and done kill-ring-save
>   or kill-region.
> 
> Is there a function to do that?
> If not, suggestions are welcome and pointers to docs
> encouraged.
> thanks
> Tim
After following the code for 'kill-ring-save, I find
that 'kill-ring-new is the likely candidate.
Any other ideas would be welcome, but it looks promising....
tj

Re: Auto-copy to clipboard

[Tim Johnson]

Tim Johnson wrote:

 
> After following the code for 'kill-ring-save, I find
> that 'kill-ring-new is the likely candidate.
> Any other ideas would be welcome, but it looks promising....
My apologies: should have been 'kill-new.
A simple test is M-: (kill-new "hello from emacs")<Cr>
and there it is in the clipboard
tim

Re: Auto-copy to clipboard

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.12.2007 um 17:08 schrieb Tim Johnson:

> 2)Send that string directly to the clipboard,
>   just as if I had inserted that text into
>   the buffer, selected it and done kill-ring-save
>   or kill-region.


What about clipboard-kill-ring-save?

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   Pete


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Re: Auto-copy to clipboard

[Tim Johnson]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 
> Am 05.12.2007 um 17:08 schrieb Tim Johnson:
> 
>> 2)Send that string directly to the clipboard,
>>   just as if I had inserted that text into
>>   the buffer, selected it and done kill-ring-save
>>   or kill-region.
> 
> 
> What about clipboard-kill-ring-save?
 The argument list is for a region, whereas kill-new
 takes a string, which would be programmatically composed.
 I was looking for this functionality as an alternative
 to sending the string to 'shell-command should the composed
 string launch a large process that might be distracting
 to the editing environment.
 cheers
 tim 
> 
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