[Elisp] Help with org-emphasis useful functions with Evil
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seeminglyugly · 2022-09-04 18:43

I like to use org-emphasis styling for my notes. I was wondering if
someone can help me out with two functions which I think would be
useful in general (I don't know much programming at all):

* Yank to clipboard text without the org-emphasis markers used to
stylize the text. `org-copy-visible` copies text to the kill-ring, but
I want this behavior in `evil-yank`.

* A way to apply org-emphasis markers around active region (i.e.
selected text). I came across
[this](https://github.com/alphapapa/unpackaged.el#surround-region-
with-emphasis-or-syntax-characters) but it doesn't seem to work. I'm
guessing it's because I'm using Evil and keys like ~ is bound to other
functions in visual mode.

Any help is much appreciated.

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fast-90 · 2022-09-04 19:51

For your second bullet point, I am using [evil-
surround](https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-surround). Basically
select the text, then when still in Visual mode, press `S` and then
your emphasis marker (e.g. `*`).

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seeminglyugly · 2022-09-04 19:58

Oh yea, I was using that but it doesn't work for multiple lines or
blocks of text where each lines needs to be org-emphasized.