osx-clipboard-mode
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joddie
Use the OS X clipboard from Emacs in a text terminal
- osx-clipboard-mode
Sometimes it is useful to run Emacs in a plain terminal window, even when a graphical display is available, but it's a nuisance if you need to copy and paste from the text-mode Emacs to another program. This is a tiny minor mode which lets Emacs on Mac OS X use the system clipboard even when running in a text terminal, via the external =pbpaste= and =pbcopy= programs.
To enable it, either customize the variable =osx-clipboard-mode= to =t=, or add the following line to your init file:
: (osx-clipboard-mode +1)
Attempting to enable this mode an a non-OS-X system or in a graphical Emacs will do nothing, so it should be safe to enable it unconditionally even if you share your configuration between multiple machines.
joddie