![]() ![]() Emacs 25.1 seems to have added support for OSC 52.This OSC 52 plugin for Emacs supported by the Chromium project should do fine.If you do not ever run Emacs inside Tmux:.Solutions all stem from the above line where copy text is converted to base64 and printed to terminal using the OSC 52 escape sequence. As long as you use a terminal emulator that supports the escape sequence, which I’ve found is true for both iTerm2 and OS X’s terminal emulator. The greatest part of using terminal escape codes is… It just works. (Note this specific command will not work inside Tmux b/c it swallows the sequence. If it pastes the text “Hello, world”, then you’re terminal is good to go! ![]() Now paste from your system clipboard (“⌘V” in Mac or “ctrl-v” for Linux). To test if your terminal supports this sequence, simply run: $ printf “\033]52 c $(printf “Hello, world” | base64)\a” Interestingly enough, one of these sequences ( \033]52) is meant for interacting with the system clipboard. That’s when I randomly stumbled upon a unique category of terminal escape codes called “Operating System Controls” (OSC). Criss-cross applesauce’d reading Hacker News articles But then…Last Friday, I sat down on the floor and decided I wouldn’t work and instead read HN articles or something. I put up with no solution for a few years and just fumbled about whenever I had to copy text from Emacs to another GUI application. One clipboard solution to rule them all™️… I gave up on bridging the copy buffers of my various terminal programs (namely in Emacs, affectionately called the “kill ring”) with my system clipboard using xclip/ xsel/ pbcopy, especially since supporting remote sessions requires more work (e.g., network listeners for piping information back to your local machine). One of the biggest downfalls of performing work inside a terminal emulator is the constant need to copy text from the terminal session and paste into another application (logs, links, test output, code snippets, etc.). So I do everything from a terminal emulator (I’m also one of those crazy people that runs Emacs inside Tmux ?). I’ve also tried solutions related to file syncing (like rsync and ( sshfs) never seemed to work in all cases. I’ve tried various ways to access my remote machine like getting remote windows ( RDP) or ( X11 forwarding) but I was never satisfied with the latency or resolution quality. My entire workflow is currently performed on a remote machine, like many of you in this quarantine era. Like any recipe writeup nowadays I’m going to start with needless background on my workflow and why this tip is great, but if you just skip to the bottom for the solution I will forgive you. ![]()
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