GNU bug report logs - #74833
31.0.50; Copy to OS clipboard doesn't work in macOS Terminal.app with xterm-mouse-mode enabled

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
Cc: 74833 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74833: 31.0.50; Copy to OS clipboard doesn't work in macOS
 Terminal.app with xterm-mouse-mode enabled
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:20:27 -0500

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I think that's because Terminal.app is providing paste, not Emacs. If you
use Emacs commands to put text into the kill-ring, it has to make it from
there into the pasteboard/clipboard and that's what xclip does for you.

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 1:18 PM Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 12/12/2024 13:08 -0500, Ship Mints wrote:
>
> > You need something like https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/xclip.html to
> assist
> > connecting macOS terminal Emacs to the system pasteboard/clipboard.
>
> Thanks, BTW paste with Command-V works, it's just copy that doesn't
> work.  Probably I'll disable xterm-mouse-mode anyway, but it would be
> nice to have this resolved in Emacs.
>

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