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Kill or copy current line with minimal keystrokes
You can use kill-whole-line to kill the entire line point is on. Position of point does not matter. This command is bound to C-S-DEL by default.
You can also instruct kill-line (bound to C-k) to kill ...
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Copy text from Emacs to OS X clipboard
Copy from Emacs to OS X clipboard:
select region then M-| pbcopy RET
Paste from OS X clipboard to Emacs:
C-u M-| pbpaste RET (replaces current region if it exists)
Explanation:
M-| runs shell-...
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Add operating system clipboard to kill ring
You need to customize save-interprogram-paste-before-kill to t. This will push your clipboard onto the killring in case you kill something in emacs before pasting the clipboard. A related ...
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evil-mode visual selection copies text to clipboard automatically
There is no bug here. Since I was also annoyed with this behavior, I just read Evil code to find out why this is happening. So, here is a straight copy/paste of the well-commented one-liner from my ...
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Copy text from Emacs to OS X clipboard
The following just works, copied from here
(defun copy-from-osx ()
(shell-command-to-string "pbpaste"))
(defun paste-to-osx (text &optional push)
(let ((process-connection-type nil))
(...
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Org mode - Parsing rich HTML directly when pasting?
is it feasible to make one?
Since this is emacs, yes.
My approach is to use a 3rd party tools that can take HTML and convert to plain text or even directly to Org format. I think this is an ugly ...
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Kill or copy current line with minimal keystrokes
There's a package called whole-line-or-region which advises various built-in commands so that they act on the current line if no region is active, so M-w will copy the current line, and C-w will kill ...
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Kill or copy current line with minimal keystrokes
The solution I've found for myself is to use prefix arguments.
For me, killing half a line is a useful feature, but I want an easier
way of killing entire lines too. So I made it so that
kill-line ...
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How to get contents of current line?
Use buffer-substring:
(buffer-substring (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position))
As Tobias noted, this also copies properties of text. If you want to avoid that, you might want to go with ...
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Spacemacs: paste into minibuffer
C-y does work, but you can also paste into the minibuffer from the default register using dotspacemacs-emacs-leader-key instead of dotspacemacs-leader-key, in which case you can use: leaderre" or ...
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How to get contents of current line?
Alternative to buffer-substring:
(thing-at-point 'line)
Dan♦
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Simple ways to copy/paste files and directories between dired buffers
You can do the following in vanilla Dired (no 3rd-party library needed):
Go first to a Dired buffer that lists the target directory.
With the cursor on the directory header line for a listing of the ...
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Copy all file names that match regexp
Use function directory-files, for which C-h f tells you:
directory-files is a built-in function in `C source code'.
(directory-files DIRECTORY &optional FULL MATCH NOSORT)
Return a list of ...
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Kill or copy current line with minimal keystrokes
This is not an answer for orthodox emacs. If, however, you're willing to blaspheme with evil's modal editing, you can:
dd for kill line
yy for copy/yank line
Both can be prefixed by the number of ...
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Copy text from Emacs to OS X clipboard
If you use Emacs "the normal way" (i.e. as a GUI application), then it should already do that by default. If you use Emacs inside a terminal emulator, then indeed it doesn't know how to do that by ...
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copy from shell and paste in terminal-emacs
You can't copy-paste between Emacs and a shell without using a system-wide copy-paste facility. Text terminals in general do not provide a copy-paste facility.
It seems that you're running this ...
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Fastest way to move code block to specific line
If the distance not big you can use move-text:
In terms of key strokes, for me it is:
Select region:
C-SPCC-nC-nC-n
Move region:
H-S-nH-S-nH-S-n
(move-text-down is binded to H-S-n)
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Evil: Is there a default register that does not get overwritten by later yanks to explicit registers?
Simply use the kill ring. In evil, your simplest option is to use evil-paste-pop, bound by default to C-p. Here's the docstring:
Replace the just-yanked stretch of killed text with a different ...
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How to auto copy when a region is selected?
If you just need this behavior for mouse selections, you can use the built-in setting mouse-drag-copy-region:
(setq mouse-drag-copy-region t)
If non-nil, copy to kill-ring upon mouse adjustments ...
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How to auto copy when a region is selected?
The selection can be copied automatically if the OS supports primary selection by setting the below variable.
(setq x-select-enable-primary t)
From C-h v x-select-enable-primary, you get,
Non-nil ...
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How to select (and copy) a column of an org table *without* rectangle selection?
Actually for org-table-copy-region it isn't necessary to mark the exact column width! Just mark the beginning of the column somewhere in a cell, then the end by going down the required number of rows ...
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Copy text as rectangle
My crystal ball tells me you're using Emacs-24.5, which indeed had this limitation. This has been fixed in Emacs-25 where rectangle-mark-mode has been improved so you can move the cursor past the "...
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Simple ways to copy/paste files and directories between dired buffers
I've added this feature now to Dired+.
You can use C-y (command diredp-yank-files) to paste files, whose absolute names you have copied to the kill ring, to the current directory. The "current ...
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Copy region from emacs without newlines
I use the following for this:
(defun my-copy-simple (beg end)
"Save the current region to the kill ring after stripping extra whitespace and new lines"
(interactive "r")
(copy-region-as-kill ...
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Inadvertent paste when correcting spelling mistakes using flyspell
Sounds like you are being bitten by the fact that one command is bound to mouse-2, another command is bound to down-mouse-2, and the two commands do not play well together.
Do C-h k and then click ...
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Copy and paste between Emacs in an X terminal and other X applications
You can use the external utilities xsel or xclip (they have mostly the same features, I'll use xsel in this answer) to copy data from or to the X clipboard. To copy to the clipboard, pass the desired ...
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How can I paste my password when pushing?
As you have noticed, you can yank the password when Magit is reading
it in the minibuffer (this works pretty much always when user input is
read in the minibuffer for whatever purpose). So the ...
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How to turn off bracketed paste mode?
My crystal ball said you should remove
(global-set-key (kbd "M-[") 'previous-multiframe-window)
from your ~/.emacs. You might like to M-x report-emacs-bug and ask for global-set-key to complain ...
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How can I copy+paste `org-mode` headlines only?
org-copy-visible, bound to C-c C-x v, does this: collapse your outline until just the headings you want to copy are visible, set a region around them, and copy via org-copy-visible.
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Handling text files with mixed encodings
1) How shall I avoid creating a text file with mixed encodings when copying its different parts from different sources into an editor such as emacs?
Irrespective of the source, you can always set the ...
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