mwolson.org Blog - /Tech

Tue, 30 Sep 2008

Emacs Clipboard manager

I had an idea for a new Emacs mode yesterday while talking with a coworker: a clipboard manager for Emacs. Think M-x browse-kill-ring, but able to pick up on yanks and kills made by other X programs, and set the current X (and Emacs) selection. An initial search didn't yield anything similar to this, so it might be interesting to implement — don't think I'll do it myself, though, since XFCE's Clipman is good enough for me.