Questions tagged [clipboard]
62 questions
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How can I clear the contents of the clipboard before calling clipboard-kill-region?
I use clipboard-kill-region to copy contents from Emacs to other programs. But sometimes, it copies the same content twice into the clipboard.
It looks like,
/home/user/.emacs/home/user/.emacs
when I copy the filename
/home/user/.emacs
Is there…
Saravana
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Clipboard manager will not work in terminal Emacs
Emacs 25.1.50, GTK+ version 3.18.9 on GNU/Linux, version 4.4.
Gnome-terminal as xterm terminal emulator.
When using clipboard (as in, I copy some text from my operating system/browser), and paste it in Emacs GUI version, it works fine. The GUI Emacs…
ReneFroger
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"File error" when using xclip
To enable copy and paste between X11 and emacs in terminal, I installed xclip via M-x package-install. There is xclip-1.4 in ~/.emacs.d/ with the following files:
xclip-autoloads.el xclip.el xclip.elc xclip-pkg.el xclip-pkg.elc
I also checked…
purplezzh
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Handle long lines while pasting from clipboard without freezing emacs
I have a lengthy xml output from a rest endpoint, I copied if from chrome dev tools to clipboard and on pasting it into an org mode buffer inside an xml source block freezes emacs for a while.
I guess this is because of emacs trying to syntax…
tutysara
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Get MIME file-type of current temporary buffer without using a temporary file
I have this function:
(defun save-binary-content (binary path)
(let ((coding-system-for-write 'no-conversion))
(with-temp-buffer
(toggle-enable-multibyte-characters)
(set-buffer-file-coding-system 'raw-text)
(insert binary)
(write-file path…
cidra
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