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From: Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: multiple kill and paste from X clipboard
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:58:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zfxazdxs.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h6jiimbw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:49:07 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:35:18 +0100
>> From:  Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> 
>> 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?
>
> Did you try using append-next-kill to make all the strings be a single
> large kill?

I guess that it would work but it is not what I intended to do.  I'd
like to be able to paste each string separately.  For example: paste the
first string in one text form, the second one elsewhere,…
-- 
Manuel Giraud



  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-12 16:58 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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

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