From: chris <inkbottle007@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cut and paste not working after xdg-open "org-protocol://store-link?url=URL&title=TITLE"
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:38:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1761146.GlYOGd2maZ@pluto> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871r0px5cu.fsf@localhost>
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On Sunday, 30 January 2022 04:36:01 CET Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> chris <inkbottle007@gmail.com> writes:
> > 3- if you do `C-y` you can see the URL is in the kill-ring
> > But obviously there is no reason for this URL to be also in the Wayland
> > (or
> > x11) clipboard? (there is no law of nature saying that what is in emacs
> > kill- ring must necessarily also be in wayland clipboard. I think there
> > is a law of nature for the other way around though)
> > In any case, in the case of Kde/Kwin/Wayland, it is not copied in the
> > Wayland clipboard.
> > Maybe it's in the description of org-protocol/store-link that the URL
> > should be copied in emacs kill-ring, in any case, it is.
> > But no it doesn't show in the kde/wayland clipboard (and why would it).
>
> I am not 100% sure if I understand your message clearly. However, just
> letting you know about existence of the following Emacs customisations:
It is, only, in conjunction with `org-protocol`, that kill-ring and Wayland-clipboard get out
of sync.
Not in some general case. General case is fine.
But in the case of org-protocol, as described in the original post and not present in the
excerpt you quoted, they do get out of sync.
To summarize again there are two things that are happening:
After doing `xdg-open "org-protocol://store-link?url=URL&title=TITLE"`.
The string "URL" is pushed into Emacs kill-ring.
But, this very string "URL", is not inserted into Wayland clipboard.
That was the first thing, string pushed into kill-ring, but not pushed simultaneously, into
Wayland clipboard.
Now second thing: from that point onward, the other way around is broken. (And that is
the part that is really annoying.)
[Then] I mouse-select a string in Firefox, or any application not Emacs. I verify the string is
indeed in Wayland clipboard, I paste it in Firefox, or in the terminal (not Emacs).
Now I do `C-y`: this later string is not pasted, even though it should have been. I do `M-y`
to see if I can find the string in the kill-ring: I can't find the string in the kill-ring.
What, instead, is the string at the top of Emacs kill-ring: the string "URL" (from the initial
org-protocol action).
So Emacs has now stopped inserting strings from Wayland-clipboard into Emacs kill-ring.
No matter how hard I try.
The labor-intensive workaround:
Now what I do is copy a string inside Emacs using `C-w`.
Then, I verify if I can past it in Firefox: I can. It really is in Wayland clipboard.
Now I copy a string from Firefox into Emacs: it is not broken anymore, until the next time I
use org-protocol, at which point it gets broken again.
And now it really is also present in Emacs kill-ring.
> save-interprogram-paste-before-kill:
> Whether to save existing clipboard text into kill ring before
> replacing it. select-enable-primary:
> Non-nil means cutting and pasting uses the primary selection.
>
> Best,
> Ihor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-30 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-27 0:03 cut and paste not working after xdg-open "org-protocol://store-link?url=URL&title=TITLE" chris
2022-01-28 12:40 ` Max Nikulin
2022-01-30 3:12 ` chris
2022-01-30 3:36 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-01-30 18:38 ` chris [this message]
2022-01-31 1:14 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-01-31 2:13 ` chris
2022-01-31 3:28 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-01-31 3:43 ` chris
2022-01-31 3:49 ` chris
2022-01-31 4:00 ` chris
2022-01-31 6:47 ` Tim Cross
2022-01-31 16:29 ` Max Nikulin
2022-02-01 5:48 ` chris
2022-02-01 5:57 ` chris
2022-02-02 16:49 ` Max Nikulin
2022-01-30 8:31 ` Max Nikulin
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