1 ;; https://hugoheden.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/copypaste-with-emacs-in-terminal/
2 ;; I prefer using the "clipboard" selection (the one the
3 ;; typically is used by c-c/c-v) before the primary selection
4 ;; (that uses mouse-select/middle-button-click)
5 (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
7 ;; If emacs is run in a terminal, the clipboard- functions have no
8 ;; effect. Instead, we use of xsel, see
9 ;; http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/ -- "a command-line
10 ;; program for getting and setting the contents of the X selection"
12 (when (getenv "DISPLAY")
13 ;; Callback for when user cuts
14 (defun xsel-cut-function (text &optional push)
15 ;; Insert text to temp-buffer, and "send" content to xsel stdin
18 ;; I prefer using the "clipboard" selection (the one the
19 ;; typically is used by c-c/c-v) before the primary selection
20 ;; (that uses mouse-select/middle-button-click)
21 (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max) "xsel" nil 0 nil "--clipboard" "--input")))
22 ;; Call back for when user pastes
23 (defun xsel-paste-function()
24 ;; Find out what is current selection by xsel. If it is different
25 ;; from the top of the kill-ring (car kill-ring), then return
26 ;; it. Else, nil is returned, so whatever is in the top of the
27 ;; kill-ring will be used.
28 (let ((xsel-output (shell-command-to-string "xsel --clipboard --output")))
29 (unless (string= (car kill-ring) xsel-output)
31 (defun xsel-noop-paste-function()
32 ;; this version will not paste from xsel. This is often not required, since C-S-v or
33 ;; middle-mouse-click will do the same.
35 ;; Attach callbacks to hooks
36 (setq interprogram-cut-function 'xsel-cut-function)
37 (setq interprogram-paste-function 'xsel-noop-paste-function)
39 ;; http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2006/10/22/emacs-copypaste-and-x/
40 ;; http://www.mail-archive.com/help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org/msg03577.html