Emacs Clipboard Management
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ex4722 · 2022-10-18 19:12

Is their a way to get use both the system clipboard and emacs kill
section? By default my vim configuration used the vim clipboard for
most things but I had keybindings to copy and paste to the system
clipboard. Setting this varible I was able to stop emacs from
clobbering my system clipboard but I don't see any commands to copy
and paste from the system clipboard.

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`(setq x-select-enable-clipboard nil)`

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Thanks!

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graduale · 2022-10-18 20:31

Have you tried
[simpleclip](https://github.com/rolandwalker/simpleclip)?

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ex4722 · 2022-10-18 20:48

I have not, it looks very nice. Currently hoping for a native solution
that uses evil or just the builtin functions but if nothing works I'll
try this.

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Thank You

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graduale · 2022-10-18 22:38

Maybe have a look at [this bit](https://github.com/rolandwalker/simple
clip/blob/023f239275115169c3a3637ad95fae4a036c005e/simpleclip.el#L370)
of simpleclip for a lot of possible functions to try. Which one works
for interacting with the system clipboard may depend on your system I
guess.

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ex4722 · 2022-10-19 01:03

Oh wow this is amazing, thanks for sharing. Turns out locally their is
a sorta local version if you use evil. With evil if you use evil-
paste-from-register ?+ you can paste from system. To copy clipboard-
kill-ring-save will work but does not like the whole vim selections
stuff


In case anyone ever needs it

 `(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "P")(lambda () (interactive)
(evil-paste-from-register ?+)))`

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HM0880 · 2022-10-19 02:26

Does `(setq save-interprogram-paste-before-kill t)` do what you want?
The doc string says, "save existing clipboard text into kill ring
before replacing it." This works from system-to-Emacs, and it seems
like you want two separate clipboards, but I thought I'd mention the
built-in option.

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02d5df8e7f · 2022-10-21 10:30

`xclip-mode` works fine for me.