How to clipboard copy emacs help text by user-made interactive function kill-ring-save

How to clipboard copy emacs help text by user-made interactive function kill-ring-save

[Budi]

I tried to clipboard copy some emacs read-only text by user-made
interactive function kill-ring-save, but fail
It's not M-w bound to kill-ring-save emacs built in function which is working

but as my preceding question, the copy :

(defun copy (b e)
  (interactive "r")
  (if (use-region-p) (call-interactively 'kill-ring-save)
  (save-excursion
  (beginning-of-line)
  (set-mark (line-end-position))
  (kill-ring-save (point)(mark))
  ))))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c") 'copy)

cannot copy such case above,
any idea what's actually made different behavior of kill-ring-save ?

Re: How to clipboard copy emacs help text by user-made interactive function kill-ring-save

[Emanuel Berg]

Budi wrote:

> I tried to clipboard copy some emacs
> read-only text by user-made interactive
> function kill-ring-save, but fail It's not
> M-w bound to kill-ring-save emacs built in
> function which is working

I'll be happy to (try) to help you, but please
try to formulate the problem in terms of what
it is you want to happen, not in terms how how
you tried to do it already. It gets confused
that way :)

You want to `kill-ring-save' the text in the
region? If so, just set it (the region) and hit
M-w :)

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573

Re: How to clipboard copy emacs help text by user-made interactive function kill-ring-save

[Bruno Barbier]

Hi,

Budi <budikusasi@gmail.com> writes:

> I tried to clipboard copy some emacs read-only text by user-made
> interactive function kill-ring-save, but fail
> It's not M-w bound to kill-ring-save emacs built in function which is working
>
> but as my preceding question, the copy :
>
> (defun copy (b e)
>   (interactive "r")
>   (if (use-region-p) (call-interactively 'kill-ring-save)
>   (save-excursion
>   (beginning-of-line)
>   (set-mark (line-end-position))
>   (kill-ring-save (point)(mark))
>   ))))

(When you define your own function, you should use your own prefix
to avoid replacing Emacs own functions.

    copy => my-copy, budi-copy, etc.
)

Assuming you're getting the following error:

   The mark is not set now, so there is no region

Your line:

   (interactive "r")
   
tells Emacs to provide a region "r" (point=>b and mark=>e) when called
interactively; it fails when there is no mark.

Remove the arguments 'b', 'e', don't request a region (drop the "r"),
and it should work.

If it doesn't, try to copy/paste the exact error and the exact steps to
reproduce.

It's probably better to use the same thread until your problem is
solved by the way, specially if you mentioned your previous emails.


Regards,

Bruno









> (global-set-key (kbd "C-c") 'copy)
>
> cannot copy such case above,
> any idea what's actually made different behavior of kill-ring-save ?