keybindings to cut/copy/paste to/from clipboard

[lordlabakdas]

Is there a keybinding for clipboard pastes from external sources such as the browser....atomic-emacs supports local cut/copy paste using regular emacs keybindings but not able to paste stuff from outside (without using the right click mouse->paste)

The way Emacs seems to handle it is through M-x clipboard-yank and M-x clipboard-kill-region.

[lordlabakdas]

update: am able to copy text from atom to outside, and have updated the title to reflect this. The issue is with copying text from external sources to atom buffer.

[oggy]

Which OS are you on? What do you see in the key binding resolver (cmd-. on mac) when you use the standard OS paste key (e.g. cmd-v on mac)?

[lordlabakdas]

Ubuntu 14.04
On the key binding resolver and pressing Ctrl-v, the first 2 rows I see are

[oggy]

Sorry for the slow response here.

That explains it, though: the problem is that emacs' ctrl-v (scroll-up) conflicts with what you'd expect of a regular Linux desktop app (paste). I just tested with Emacs on Ubuntu (16.04), and it too favors scroll-up for ctrl-v, so I'm inclined to keep this behavior, at least as the default.

If you're just after direct a substitute for M-x clipboard-yank, you can do alt-x core:paste.

If you want to permanently override ctrl-v to the Atom default, you can add this to your personal keymap:

'atom-text-editor:not(.autocomplete-active):not(.mini)':
  'ctrl-v': 'core:paste'

[MartyGentillon]

In my experience, in current versions of Emacs, when I cut or copy something in another program, it is inserted at the top of the kill ring, so C-y pastes it. The kill ring here needs to work the same way.

[ghost]

I agree with @MartyGentillon
Even when I start emacs with emacs -Q it integrates with system clipboard and I can copy and paste text from other apps to emacs (and vice vesa) seamlessly.

@oggy please consider adding this feature to atomic-emacs

[MartyGentillon]

Tomorrow I should have a pull request for this.

[MartyGentillon]

An initial implementation #130. There are a couple concerns: first, when yanking to multiple cursors, a multi-line system clipboard should be split between the cursors based on lines. (The current behavior is similar to my complaint in sublime-emacs/sublemacspro#176) Second, I am not certain that the "kill-ring per cursor" design is good. It might be better to have one unified kill ring that is aware of multiple cursors, and multiple cursor yanks.

[MartyGentillon]

So, the basic feature is now available. Todos include possibly rethinking the kill-ring-per-cursor feature such that cuts from other programs integrate the way they would with the normal cut / paste feature (specifically where if you paste two lines of text with two cursors, each line goes to one cursor.)

[oggy]

Closing this, as the requested functionality is there now - thanks @MartyGentillon .

[dostrander]

Just found atomic-emacs from this issue. Thanks for having a fix for one of my biggest complaints of atom.

[ifq]

Hi,
I'm using version 0.15 right now, and the external copy doesn't insert into the kill ring. Am I missing something?