From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Copy variable to system clipboard (as simpleclip) Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 02:23:55 +0200 Message-ID: <864ltiuctg.fsf@zoho.com> References: <20170807231147.GA3447@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502151909 17354 195.159.176.226 (8 Aug 2017 00:25:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 00:25:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 08 02:24:55 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1desKL-0003kr-JN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 02:24:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1desKR-0000Qb-Rz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:24:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33761) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1desJu-0000Mi-Om for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1desJp-0004VT-Md for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:24:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52489 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1desJp-0004Sh-Gh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:24:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1desJV-0001OT-F3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 02:24:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:BSlN7Do0QSY2wQXy+qP5KY/9g4I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] 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:113952 Archived-At: Tim Johnson wrote: > I use simpleclip routinely so that I can copy > and paste from the system clipboard without > affecting the emacs kill ring. However, > I could use a function that would copy any > string variable (such as output from > buffer-file-name) to the system clipboard. > > Is such function available? Yes, use xsel(1x) as I did here - one of the first things I wrote in Elisp by the way - could probably benefit from an upgrade, but hey, if it ain't broke, fix it, to make sure it is! http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/xsel.el -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573