Sharing the Mac Clipboard with Emacs
Posted by Doug Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:09:00 GMT
While I’m sharing emacs hacks, I finally got around to researching this and/or figuring it out. I almost always run emacs inside the terminal in a “no window” mode. It’s pretty natural for me to use M-w to copy something from emacs and then try to Cmd-V it in another Terminal window or likewise Cmd-C something in Terminal and then try paste it into emacs with C-y. Until now, I haven’t known how to share the clipboard with emacs.
(defun copy-from-osx ()
(shell-command-to-string "pbpaste"))
(defun paste-to-osx (text &optional push)
(let ((process-connection-type nil))
(let ((proc (start-process "pbcopy" "*Messages*" "pbcopy")))
(process-send-string proc text)
(process-send-eof proc))))
(setq interprogram-cut-function 'paste-to-osx)
(setq interprogram-paste-function 'copy-from-osx)This takes advantage of the pbcopy and pbpaste command line programs to access the clipboard and offers them up as elisp method for emacs’ interprogram-*-functions. Easy, peasy, pumkin weasy.
I need to give some props to Mark Aufflick for his post on Automatic Copy from X11 App to Mac OS Clipboard. My paste-to-osx is pretty much a straight rip from him.
