On Dec 9, 2004, at 9:09 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
Doh... that's the new feature about macros having their own local clipboard :( Then I'm afraid there's no real substitute.
Hm... But couldn't the selected text, rather than being cut and placed in the clipboard, just be instead sent to a file? Something like this, say:
cat >"/tmp/fakekillbuffer"
You'd have to select 'selected text' as the input and 'replace select text' as the output. (If you want to be appending to the kill buffer rather than having it act like cut-and-paste, you could just append to the file using >>.) And of course the counterpart of yank would just be:
cat "/tmp/fakekillbuffer"
...with input and output set as before... Clearly, this doesn't yet approximate kill and yank---for one thing, you'd still need to put the kill thing in a macro so that it automatically selects to the end of a line---but doesn't it get you part of the way there, or at least overcome this wiping-out-the-clipboard issue?
I'm guessing I'm missing something obvious? Am I a little too enamored of what TM lets you do with shell tools?