From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient and Mac OS's clipboard Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <882fbd43-7b1b-459c-888d-8839d513cd2b@ri8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> References: <12623582.853.1335382697212.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynma1> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335582013 30641 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2012 03:00:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:00:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 28 05:00:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SNxtM-0004FQ-Sj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:00:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41895 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNxtM-0005Rv-Cc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:00:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!ri8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.74.129.249 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1335581950 7041 127.0.0.1 (28 Apr 2012 02:59:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: ri8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.74.129.249; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192258 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84668 Archived-At: On Apr 26, 12:38=A0am, michaelsbradle...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm running the latest pretest from the "Emacs For Mac OS X" website (Ema= cs-pretest-24.0.95-universal-10.6.8.dmg) on Mac OS version 10.7. > > If I launch Emacs in a standalone fashion (i.e. double-click on Emacs.app= ), the editor's kill ring and the OS's clipboard "communicate" with each ot= her such that I can copy/paste back and forth between Emacs and other appli= cations. > > However, if I launch Emacs in --daemon mode and then fire up `emacsclient= -c`, I find that the client's kill ring does not "communicate" with the OS= 's clipboard, and it's seemingly impossible to copy/paste between Emacs and= other applications. A workaround is to use some intermediate text file, wh= ich I have open in say Emacs and TextEdit, but obviously that's not a great= solution. > > I'm hunting for a fix to this problem (if one exists) but am coming up sh= ort with google searches, et al. > > Thanks for your help. No idea about mac or the discrepancy between standalone and daemon- client emacs. Still you might want to look at the value of the variable x-select- enable-clipboard