Re: how to get subsequent text copies to emacs kill ring?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> 6. To change the subject a bit, I find that what annoys me the most is not an
> inability to access multiple external clipboard items from Emacs, but an
> inability to access the latest external clipboard item after I have copied
> something else (from Emacs) onto the kill ring.  IOW, if you want to yank the
> externally copied text then you must do so immediately.

FWIW, I use a local patch which does just that (i.e. when you kill
something, Emacs first checks if there's something on the external
clipboard, and if there is, it adds it to the kill-ring just before the
thing you kill).

The main downside is that copying the content of the clipboard from some
external application can occasionally take a while, so the code needs to
be careful to timeout sufficiently quickly, and even so, the small delay
can occasionally be annoying.


        Stefan