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: Stumped by pasting to another application in linux Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:06:13 +0100 Message-ID: <867euryz6y.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510783624 17795 195.159.176.226 (15 Nov 2017 22:07:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:07:04 +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 Wed Nov 15 23:06:57 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 1eF5pd-00046Z-1y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:06:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38070 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF5pk-0006NG-Gj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:07:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41737) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF5pG-0006My-Gk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:06:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF5pD-0000Lc-Oh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:06:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44239 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF5pD-0000KT-H5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:06:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eF5p1-00028T-Mz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:06:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:eZLIi2sT4EE1O/Kn+wKbM+f7nmE= 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:114888 Archived-At: Bill Rising wrote: > I've been getting very vexed by > the following. > > Goal: Take the clipboard contents and paste > them into another application by using > a shell script called by Emacs, followed by > a Return. finally the paste of the text. OK, so what application is it? Sure there isn't a counterpart in Emacs which you not only can, but *want* to migrate to, since it is probably much better anyway and will solve all integration issues implicitly? If not, you can use this for X and Linux VTs (if X is running at the same time): http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/xsel.el In the [M]ELPAs, there is an almost identical file but that uses xclip instead xsel. That makes sense, as xclip is a "command line interface to X selections" while xsel is a "command-line tool to access X clipboard" :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573