Re: ox-clip.el

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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 <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 <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> 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 <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> 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. Is that already done?
>> 
>> 
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