extended-yank

This emacs package provides the ability to read the rich format of the clipboard so that users can paste more information into emacs. Inspired by citrus-lemon/emacs-macos-clipboard

Dependencies

macOS

This package relies on shell calls to osascript and pandoc. osascript should be a native utility on your macOS device. To get pandoc:

brew install pandoc

Windows

This package relies on shell calls to powershell and pandoc. Powershell should be installed by default on your Windows device. To get pandoc:

choco install pandoc

Alternatively, head to https://pandoc.org/installing.html#windows for other options.

Linux

This package relies on shell calls to xclip or wl-paste and pandoc. To get pandoc, use your package manager. For example, on Ubuntu:

For wayland:

sudo apt-get install pandoc wl-clipboard

For xorg:

sudo apt-get install pandoc xclip

If you use arch, btw, you can get the depencies this way:

For wayland:

sudo pacman -S pandoc wl-clipboard

For xorg:

sudo pacman -S pandoc xclip

Installation

git clone this directory into your emacs.d directory, then add the following to your init file:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/.emacs.d/extended-yank")
(require 'extended-yank)

Usage

If you like, you can bind extended-yank-yank-html to a key in your init file. For example:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c y") 'extended-yank-yank-html)