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March 14, 2019 11:02
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teach emacs to use wl-copy
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(setq wl-copy-process nil) | |
(defun wl-copy (text) | |
(setq wl-copy-process (make-process :name "wl-copy" | |
:buffer nil | |
:command '("wl-copy" "-f" "-n") | |
:connection-type 'pipe)) | |
(process-send-string wl-copy-process text) | |
(process-send-eof wl-copy-process)) | |
(defun wl-paste () | |
(if (and wl-copy-process (process-live-p wl-copy-process)) | |
nil ; should return nil if we're the current paste owner | |
(shell-command-to-string "wl-paste -n | tr -d \r"))) | |
(setq interprogram-cut-function 'wl-copy) | |
(setq interprogram-paste-function 'wl-paste) |
Thanks for this!
I only wanted copying (since my terminal emulator already does pasting just fine), so I simplified the code a bit, for anyone who's interested:
(defun wl-copy (text)
(let ((p (make-process :name "wl-copy"
:command '("wl-copy")
:connection-type 'pipe)))
(process-send-string p text)
(process-send-eof p)))
(setq interprogram-cut-function 'wl-copy)
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@yorickvP It seems like you don't need this anymore, however I still find wl-copy/wl-paste useful when running emacsclient over waypipe (since I want to have copy/paste between host where the emacsclient is displaying & emacs). So I reused bits of this in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/sochotnicky/waypipe-mode.el