I’m quite confused with the difference between CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY in X11 and in OS X. Evil calls `x-select-text’ in `evil-visual-{pre,post}-command’. And here is the document of `x-select-text’: x-select-text is an alias for ‘gui-select-text’ in ‘select.el’. (x-select-text TEXT) This function is obsolete since 25.1; use ‘gui-select-text’ instead. Select TEXT, a string, according to the window system. if ‘select-enable-clipboard’ is non-nil, copy TEXT to the system’s clipboard. If ‘select-enable-primary’ is non-nil, put TEXT in the primary selection. MS-Windows does not have a "primary" selection. So I set select-enable-clipboard to nil and now it works as expected — `ox-clip' a region, when pasting in Libreoffice I get the formatted version, when pasting in Emacs I get the original text. > On Jun 30, 2016, at 8:13 PM, John Kitchin wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback. > > I noticed at the bottom of `gui-set-selection': Note that on MS-Windows, > primary and secondary selections set by Emacs are not available to other > programs. It looks like Emacs won't support this out of the box soon ;) >> >> But the text to be copied here is in RTF, but Emacs >> is hardcoded to copy texts. Damn. We have to use >> pbcopy or to change Emacs internal code. > >> >> Now things go back to finding the culprit of >> overwriting the clipboard. And I traced to >> `evil-visual-update-x-selection’ called in >> `evil-visual-{pre,post}-command’. Oh I don’t understand >> why evil does this. Disabling evil-mode works. > > That sounds "evil". How do you ever copy anything? I still don't really > understand why it is an issue for ox-clip unless what is really happening > is evil messes up the active region which is exported by org-mode. The > ox-clip command doesn't touch the emacs clipboard at all I think. It > only uses system commands to put stuff on the system clipboards (which > are not directly visible to emacs in the first place). > > The ox-clip commands don't currently copy anything you can paste back > into emacs. I have debated doing that, but it adds a noticeable lag for > the copy command since an org-export is involved, and if you are pasting > back to emacs that is not needed. > > A solution would be a new copy command that just does a regular copy all > the time, but with a prefix arg does a formatted copy for pasting > elsewhere. I just use two different key bindings now. M-w for copy, and > H-k for formatted copy. > >> >> Then here comes another bug: >> >> I’m testing on a Chinese org file. Here is the part: >> >> *** Evil-Surround >> >> [[https://github.com/timcharper/evil-surround][Evil-surround] ] 是一个 Vim 上非常常用的插件改写的，使用它可以快速的将选中区域进行匹配的操作，例如选中区域两边同时进行添加或修改括号，引号等操作。 >> >> 下载安装后使用下面的代码将其激活， >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp >> (require 'evil-surround) >> (global-evil-surround-mode) >> #+END_SRC >> >> 简单的使用方法就是在选中所选区域后，使用 =S(= 来将选中区域包括在括号之中。如果想将括号改变成 ="= 可以在选中后使用 =cs("= >> >> You can get the whole file in https://github.com/emacs-china/Spacemacs-rocks/blob/master/README.org >. >> >> But pasting the formatted resulted this: >> >> >> >> The encoding is wrong. Adding a ‘-inputencoding UTF-8’ fixes it. >> > > I added this to the macOSX command. thanks for the solution! > >> >> Really cool! That’s what I want. >> >> Any workaround for that unwanted evil behaviour? I rely on evil a lot. >> >> >>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 10:25 PM, John Kitchin > wrote: >>> >>> >>> Jiegec writes: >>> >>>> I’m testing this in OS X. I can confirm this works though it seems to conflict with >>>> some other packages here which constantly copy the selected region and then >>>> overwrite the result of ox-clip. >>> What kind of package is that? None of the kill commands can use the >>> clipboard that ox-clip sends things too as far as I know. I don't see >>> how this is possible. >>> >>>> I have checked the output of textutil and use the >>>> same command in shell and that works. One feedback: are there internal functions >>>> to manipulate the system clipboard? I am in favour of those instead of >>>> pbcopy. >>> >>> There are none that I know of (or I would have used them ;). >>> >>>> As in mentioned in https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard > >>, >>>> pbcopy sometimes does not work. The link above says ‘Under Yosemite >>>> (and later) pasteboard access seems to work fine without the program from >>>> this repository.’ but this is not true in my laptop in OS X El Capitan >>>> 10.11.5. >>> >>> That could be true. I don't have access to anything that modern yet. >>> >>>> >>>>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 9:16 PM, John Kitchin wrote: >>>>> >>>>> its not there yet. I would like some people to test it out a little >>>>> maybe? get some feedback on it. Then it will probably go to MELPA. >>>>> >>>>> Jiege Chen writes: >>>>> >>>>>> John Kitchin wrote: >>>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I extended the work I did here >>>>>>> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/06/16/Copy-formatted-org-mode-text-from-Emacs-to-other-applications/ >>>>>>> on copying formatted org-mode to other applications so it is >>>>>>> approximately cross-platform now. There is one command >>>>>>> `ox-clip-formatted-copy' that should copy a region in an org-file with >>>>>>> formatting to paste into other applications on Windows, Mac and Linux. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/ox-clip.el >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Try it out! >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Impressive. I'd love ox-clip to be released in MELPA. 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