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The X clipboard allows a user to copy and paste content between different X
windows, e.g. copying text from Chrome into a Terminal. Copy/pasting with the X
clipboard it well supported in GUI Emacs, but not so well in terminal Emacs
(i.e `emacs -nw` or `emacsclient -t`) without resorting to using the mouse,
since terminal Emacs has no awareness of X. There are several incomplete Elisp
solutions out that work for the most part, but may not have cross-platform
support, or may fail over SSH with X forwarding or within a `tmux` session.

This layer adds support for OSX, Linux, Windows, and Cygwin using the relevant
binary on each system. For example on Linux, it uses `xsel` or `xclip` to
interface with the clipboard, depending which one is available. It also adds
support for ssh'ing into a different OS with X forwarding via `ssh -Y hostname`,
and copy/pasting to and from a remote terminal Emacs. It also supports an edge
case of continuing to work in an Emacs instance running inside a `tmux` session
which may have been started by a different ssh session, which relies on
explicitly reseting the `$DISPLAY` environment variable before calling the
relevant binary.

Yank code inspired by https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank.

Fix syl20bnr#4662.
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#+TITLE: xclipboard layer

* Table of Contents :TOC_4_gh:noexport:
- [[#description][Description]]
- [[#key-bindings][Key Bindings]]

* Description
This layer adds copy/paste support to the X-clipboard from the terminal.

* Key Bindings

| Key Binding | Description |
|-------------+---------------------------------------------|
| ~SPC x y~ | Copy selection to clipboard |
| ~SPC x p~ | Paste clipboard contents at cursor position |
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;;; funcs.el --- xclipboard layer functions file for Spacemacs.
;;
;; Copyright (c) 2012-2017 Google Inc. & Contributors
;;
;; Author: Charles Weill <weill@google.com>
;; URL: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
;;
;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
;;
;;; License: GPLv3

(defun xclipboard/get-display ()
(shell-command-to-string "if [[ -n $TMUX ]]; then
export DISPLAY=$(tmux show-environment | grep -o '^DISPLAY.*$' | sed 's/DISPLAY=//')
fi
if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]]; then
export DISPLAY=:0
fi
printf $DISPLAY")
)

(defun xclipboard/get-copy-command ()
(shell-command-to-string "command_exists() {
local command=\"$1\"
type \"$command\" >/dev/null 2>&1
}
# Installing reattach-to-user-namespace is recommended on OS X
if command_exists \"pbcopy\"; then
if command_exists \"reattach-to-user-namespace\"; then
printf \"reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy\"
else
printf \"pbcopy\"
fi
elif command_exists \"clip.exe\"; then # WSL clipboard command
printf \"clip.exe\"
elif command_exists \"xsel\"; then
printf \"xsel -ib\"
elif command_exists \"putclip\"; then # cygwin clipboard command
printf \"putclip\"
fi")
)

(defun xclipboard/get-paste-command ()
(shell-command-to-string "command_exists() {
local command=\"$1\"
type \"$command\" >/dev/null 2>&1
}
# Installing reattach-to-user-namespace is recommended on OS X
if command_exists \"pbpaste\"; then
if command_exists \"reattach-to-user-namespace\"; then
printf \"reattach-to-user-namespace pbpaste\"
else
printf \"pbpaste\"
fi
elif command_exists \"paste.exe\"; then # WSL clipboard command
printf \"paste.exe\"
elif command_exists \"xsel\"; then
printf \"xsel -ob\"
elif command_exists \"getclip\"; then # cygwin clipboard command
printf \"getclip\"
fi")
)

(defun xclipboard/copy ()
"Copies selection to x-clipboard."
(interactive)
(if (display-graphic-p)
(progn
(message "Copied region to x-clipboard!")
(call-interactively 'clipboard-kill-ring-save)
)
(if (region-active-p)
(progn
(shell-command-on-region (region-beginning) (region-end) (format "DISPLAY=%s %s" (xclipboard/get-display) (xclipboard/get-copy-command)))
(message (format "Copied region to clipboard \"%s\"!" (xclipboard/get-display)))
(deactivate-mark)
)
(message "No region active; can't copy to clipboard!")
)
)
)

(defun xclipboard/paste ()
"Pastes from x-clipboard."
(interactive)
(if (display-graphic-p)
(progn
(clipboard-yank)
(message "graphics active")
)
(insert (shell-command-to-string (format "DISPLAY=%s %s" (xclipboard/get-display) (xclipboard/get-paste-command))))
)
(message (format "Pasted from clipboard \"%s\"!" (xclipboard/get-display)))
)
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;;; keybindings.el --- xclipboard layer keybindings file for Spacemacs.
;;
;; Copyright (c) 2012-2017 Google Inc. & Contributors
;;
;; Author: Charles Weill <weill@google.com>
;; URL: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
;;
;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
;;
;;; License: GPLv3

(evil-leader/set-key "x y" 'xclipboard/copy)
(evil-leader/set-key "x p" 'xclipboard/paste)
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;;; packages.el --- xclipboard layer packages file for Spacemacs.
;;
;; Copyright (c) 2012-2017 Google Inc. & Contributors
;;
;; Author: Charles Weill <weill@google.com>
;; URL: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
;;
;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
;;
;;; License: GPLv3

(defconst xclipboard-packages '(xclipboard))

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