visual selection and X primary behavior

Sun Jul 27 15:00:10 CEST 2014

Hi,

Terminal emacs can't access X libraries, hence clipboard. I had similar
issue and the only solution is to combine it with external tools, like
'xsel'.

Here is nice post how to do it:
http://hugoheden.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/copypaste-with-emacs-in-terminal/

Good thing about above approach is that all Evil yanks and cuts will
work with clipboard out of the box (no need to change anything, just
load that code).

Bad thing is if you use tramp for editing remote file, emacs will
expect 'xsel' to be installed on that host too. This can be easily
hacked with tramp hooks.

Best,
Sanel

On 07/26/14,Gordon Gustafson wrote:

> I can reproduce this. Some quick googling confirms that it comes from
> Emacs not being able to access the X clipboard when it's not run under
> X, so it's not an issue with Evil. Unfortunately I didn't see any
> fixes along the way...
> 
> On 7/26/14, Linus Arver <linusarver at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 06:31:06PM -0400, Gordon Gustafson wrote:
> >> Did you mean this (without the comma)?
> >>
> >>     (define-key evil-normal-state-map "y" "\"+y")
> >>
> >
> > Well, I use the comma as my "leader" key. I don't want to use just
> > "y" itself because that would overwrite the default "y" command.
> >
> >> Also, do you get the same error when you manually type the "+y (not
> >> using the macro)? What  key sequence causes the failure?
> >
> > If I don't use the macro and just type
> >
> >     "+y
> >
> > into a `emacs -nw` session, I get the error message
> >
> >     X selection unavailable for this frame
> >
> > .
> >
> > -L
> >
> >>
> >> On 7/26/14, Linus Arver <linusarver at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hello all,
> >> >
> >> > In regular Emacs (with Evil mode turned on, of course), I can
> >> > (1) do visual selection of a region, and it will automatically
> >> > copy that selection into the X primary selection buffer. This
> >> > way, I can simply do
> >> > SHIFT+INSERT in another X program (e.g., Firefox) and I will
> >> > paste the selection that way. Conversely, I can (2) SHIFT+INSERT
> >> > into Emacs/Evil (in Insert mode), and it will paste whatever is
> >> > in the X primary buffer.
> >> >
> >> > However, behavior (1) does not work in terminal-mode Emacs
> >> > (`emacs -nw`), although behavior (2) works as expected. I have
> >> > tried to work around this by using my `"+y` macro which is
> >> > enabled with
> >> >
> >> >     (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",y" "\"+y")
> >> >
> >> > in my .emacs, but it fails with the message
> >> >
> >> >     After 0 kbd macro iterations: X selection unavailable for
> >> > this frame
> >> >
> >> > . Is this a bug in Evil or is it something in Emacs itself?
> >> >
> >> > -L
> >> >
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