Questions tagged [copy-paste]
is about the editor operations cut, copy, and paste as they apply to Emacs. In Emacs, cut is called "kill" and paste is called "yank" (but Emacs enhances the standard cut and paste behavior).
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How do I write a function to copy a region to the MacOS clipboard?
I'd like to be able to mark a region in a text buffer, hit an F-key, and have the contents of the region copied into the MacOS clipboard. From the shell you can do this by piping the text into the ...
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How can I paste text from the system's xopy-paSTE buffer (for instance, from a web browser under Linux) into Emacs Evil-mode?
I was sure this question had already been asked, but I couldn't find it on this SE.
I would like to paste text from Chrome's view page source, on Cinnamon on Linux Mint, into an Emacs window.
The menu ...
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Copying attachments of sent mails in gnus
This is a very basic question. I often have to send the same attachments to different people so it would be convenient if I could copy them from my sent mails. I thought this would be very easy, since ...
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Use MacOS semantics for copy-paste
I use Emacs on MacOS, installed by homebrew:
% ls -l /opt/homebrew/bin/emacs
lrwxr-xr-x 1 kwilliams admin 44 Jan 31 2023 /opt/homebrew/bin/emacs@ -> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
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Searching for text fragments by character text properties
The text to be processed has special words marked with a special font.
The required text is copied to the clipboard with the mouse (from firefox). The text is pasted into the clipboard
emacs("...
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can't use `isearch-yank-word-or-char` in minibuffer-local-map?
I'd like to have occur's prompt in the minibuffer do the same that isearch does: C-w inserts the word at point in the main buffer into the minibuffer prompt. That keybinding, when doing isearch, calls ...
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When running `term` in standalone emacs on OSX, how can I copy output?
This question maybe sounds a bit strange, but I can't for the life of me work out how to copy output from term when it is running in the standalone version ("standalone" as in when emacs ...
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Copy text at line N at point
How can I make a function that copies text from line number N at point? I will be at some specific line and point position and want to copy the text from a different line N.
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Using Emacs to find and copy relevant database records
I have reduced a large text file to a 1.9GB size that Microsoft Access can handle, but only as a linked file. To permit full Access operations - to import the relevant data into Access - I need to ...
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Copy with Line Numbers
I have line-numbers displayed, but when I copy the text, the normal behavior is of course to not include the line numbers in the copied text. However, when I want to paste something on sites like this ...
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ctrl+backspace overwrites copy buffer
When I copy something first and then want to paste after I delete something, if I delete with CTRL+Backspace it pastes what I deleted when I CTRL+V (I can copy with CTRL+C and paste with CTRL+V in ...
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How to repeat the last yank command N times?
I'm just not able able to replicate the answer on this. Starting with:
lipsum
I do (my interpretaton):
Alt-W over the word (copy)
Enter (new line)
Ctrl-Y (paste)
Alt-2 Ctrl-X z (repeat last two ...
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(setq select-enable-primary t) breaks copy/paste in Emacs 28
After I updated Cygwin W32 to v28 selection of text started to copy the value to clipboard.
I use selection to replace existing text with one from buffer but now the text is replaced with itself ...
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How can I copy the text to the clipboard while using spacemacs?
I know that on emacs I can install the xclip package in order to be able to copy text to the system clipboard... With the xclip package installed and adding the following to my .emacs file, I can copy ...
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Org-capture: not able to copy paste image in transient buffer
Basically that: when I try to capture on the fly ideas with images, I can't paste them. Org-capture seems to only work for text. Any ideas on how to bypass this limitation? Thanks!
I just noted this ...
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