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Re: multiple kill and paste from X clipboard


From: Manuel Giraud
Subject: Re: multiple kill and paste from X clipboard
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:58:23 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:35:18 +0100
>> From:  Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
>> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> 
>> I'd like to be able to paste a serie of strings from Emacs to an
>> external X program (e.g. a form with multiple entry in a web browser).
>> 
>> I could put all the strings in the Emacs' kill-ring but then a paste in
>> the other program will just retrieve the last killed string.  Or maybe,
>> Emacs could be informed that the last kill was paste externally and then
>> proceed to kill the next item?
>> 
>> How could I do that?
>
> Did you try using append-next-kill to make all the strings be a single
> large kill?

I guess that it would work but it is not what I intended to do.  I'd
like to be able to paste each string separately.  For example: paste the
first string in one text form, the second one elsewhere,…
-- 
Manuel Giraud



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