From: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to speed up cutting & pasting from/to emacs?
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 17:24:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0ff4tF1r3nU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.6773.1436703421.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Here is a possible solution, complete with code. I have not tested it,
but I have solved a similar problem recently. Anyway, use it at your
own risk, as they say.
You could write a script that transfers the current selection to the
clipboard and then asks Emacs to paste it. Then you would bind this
script to a keyboard shortcut. This way, you could select the text to
copy and then press that keyboard shortcut to paste it into Emacs.
I will assume that you have both the `xsel` and the `xbindkeys` programs
on your system. Apparently, there are two different programs whose name
is `xsel` around... Mine is version 1.2.0 by Conrad Parker. I will also
assume that your Emacs instance is running as an *edit server*.
Let's call our script ~/bin/emacs-yank:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#!/bin/sh
# Copy the current selection to the clipboard.
xsel --output | xsel --input --clipboard
# Ask Emacs to paste from the clipboard.
emacsclient --no-wait --eval "(yank)"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Remember to make the script executable:
chmod +x ~/bin/emacs-yank
Here is the `~/.xbindkeysrc.scm` file to tell `xbindkeys` to bind
Windows+Alt+E to the above script (of course, you must adjust the
absolute path to the script):
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(xbindkey '(mod4 alt e) "/home/lele/bin/emacs-yank")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Remember to start `xbindkeys`:
xbindkeys
That's all. Good luck.
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2015-07-12 15:24 ` Raffaele Ricciardi [this message]
2015-07-12 12:17 How to speed up cutting & pasting from/to emacs? Sharon Kimble
2015-07-12 16:11 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-12 17:28 ` Sharon Kimble
[not found] ` <mailman.6791.1436722135.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-12 17:35 ` Rusi
2015-07-12 18:20 ` Sharon Kimble
2015-07-12 18:24 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-12 17:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-12 18:02 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-12 18:58 ` Sharon Kimble
2015-07-13 0:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-13 0:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-13 15:05 ` Sharon Kimble
2015-07-13 23:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-27 1:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-13 15:30 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-07-12 17:35 ` Yuri Khan
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